Meaning
問屋 (といや / とんや, toiyatonya) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “wholesale store / wholesale store, wholesaler”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
この街には家具の問屋がたくさんあります。
There are a lot of wholesale furniture stores in this town.
そうは問屋がおろさない。
You won't get it so easily.
生家は染物問屋であった。
His family ran a dye wholesale business.
現金問屋は依然根強い人気がある。
Cash-basis wholesalers still have deep-rooted popularity.
私は昨日は布を買いに問屋に行きました。
I went to the wholesale dealer to buy cloth yesterday.
出版社と町の本屋さんとを取り次ぐのが問屋です.
It is wholesalers that act as intermediaries between publishers and local booksellers.
そうは問屋がおろさない.〈それではうまく行かぬ〉
You won't get away with that.
そうは問屋がおろさない.〈君の思うようにはならぬ〉
That's expecting [asking] too much.
彼らは強固な組合をもち、江戸酒問屋や江戸十組問屋を組織していった。
They were associated with each other strongly, and organized the wholesale sale of sake in Edo and Edo tokumidonya (a guild of wholesale merchants of ten products in Edo).