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売り込み (うりこみ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word Freq. Frequency Top 50,000 Meanings 1
noun
sales promotion ; hard selling
Refers to the act of aggressively promoting or pushing a product, service, or idea to potential buyers or clients. Often implies proactive, persistent effort.
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He is good at hard selling to clients.
Written forms 売う り 込こ み Usage 100%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
売うり 込こ み
Variant spelling with the okurigana 込み instead of り込み; less common but still encountered.
Kanji 込 crowded, mixture, in bulk Similar words 販はん 売ばい 促そく 進しん 販売促進 is a broader, more formal term for sales promotion in general, while 売り込み emphasizes the proactive, sometimes aggressive act of pushing a sale.
セールス セールス is a loanword for 'sales' and can refer to the entire sales process, whereas 売り込み focuses specifically on the promotional or hard-selling aspect.
Etymology Compound of 売り (uri, 'selling', the continuative form of 売る) and 込み (komi, 'including, putting in', the continuative form of 込む). Literally 'selling in', it conveys the idea of pushing a product into the market or into a customer's consideration.
