shòu

sell

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
雔 sound,remnant component

  Sound Remnant component

chóu

  

match, collate

口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

售 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
售 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

shòu

sell; to sell; to make or carry out (a plan or intrigue etc)

Most common words with 售
Freq.
Word
Meaning

销售

to sell

出售

to sell

to sell

零售

to retail

售价

selling price

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 19.2856% of movies

1506th most common character in movies

1114th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+552E

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“售,賣去手也。从口,雔省聲。”


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