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WeChat

Communication Services

WeChat is a Chinese instant messaging, social media and mobile payment application developed by Tencent. First released in 2011, it became the world's largest standalone mobile app by 2018, with more than one billion monthly active users, and is often described as China's all purpose super app. It provides text and hold to talk voice messaging, one to many broadcast messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, photo and video sharing, and location sharing.

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Classification
Sector (GICS)
Communication Services 1
Offering Kind
Service 1
Connections

In Sector

Entity identity for the business product-service.sector GICS enum value this member already carries, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket pilot (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decision 2026-09-28 on business product-service.sector, w-bucketpilot-gics-0929). The sector fact itself, with its own citation, remains on the member entity unchanged; this edge only adds the durable entity identity the enum value already names.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: WeChat
Wikipedia
  • Introduction, GICS sector classification
    WeChat is an instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent.
  • Introduction, offering kind classification
    WeChat is an instant messaging, social media, and mobile payment app developed by Tencent.
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Wikidata: WeChat
Wikidata Q283233, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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