Definition
存货 (cún huò) refers to the physical goods or merchandise a business holds for sale — its stock or inventory. It differs from 库存 (kù cún), which emphasizes the quantity or recorded amount of inventory (often in accounting), and from 现货 (xiàn huò), which specifically means goods available for immediate delivery (spot goods). 存货 can also be used as a verb meaning 'to stock up'.
noun
stockinventory (goods kept for sale or use)
verb
to stock up on goodsto take inventory
Easily confused
- 存活cún huósound-aliketo survive
Examples
- 存货。Niándǐ xūyào qīngdiǎn yí cì cún huò.We need to take inventory once at the end of the year.
- 存货。Zhè jiā diàn de cún huò zhǒnglèi hěn duō.This store has a wide variety of stock.
- 存货存货。Jīnglǐ jiāng yì pī lǎo cún huò dǎzhé chūshòu.The manager sold a batch of old inventory at a discount.
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