Illustration: At a neighborhood flea market in Japan, a small antiques dealer stands between an original owner and an eager new customer. A distinctive ceramic tanuki sits at the center of the dealer’s folding table, still partly inside the original owner’s open padded carrying bag.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

転てん売ばい

tenbai

to resell

Example sentences

  1. しかしやがて明あかからの輸入品ゆにゅうひんを日本にっぽんや朝鮮ちょうせんなどに転売てんばいすることで巨額きょがくの利益りえきを上あげていった。

    But after a while Ryukyu made enormous profits by reselling imported goods from Ming to Japan and Korea.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 林若樹氏死後はやしわかじゅししごに蔵書ぞうしょが処分しょぶんされ転売てんばいされる。

    After his death, the books owned by Wakaki HAYASHI were cleared and resold.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. この店みせではチケットの転売てんばいを禁止きんししています。

    This shop prohibits the resale of tickets.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 転売

  • 転revolve; turn aroundOnテンKunころがる・ころげる・ころがす
  • 売sellOnバイKunうる・うれる

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