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賣

mài

sell

Phonosemantic compound. 出 represents the meaning and 買 represents the sound.

Components
出 meaning component

出  Meaning component

chū

  

go out

買 sound,meaning component

買  Sound Meaning component

mǎi

  

buy

Evolution

賣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
賣 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
賣 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
賣 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

卖 (賣) 

mài

sell; betray; show off; to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt

Most common words with 賣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

卖

to sell

买卖

business

拍卖

to auction

出卖

to sell

卖出

to sell

Component uses

Meaning component in 4 characters (0 verified)

贖 竇 犢 黷

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

贖 瀆 牘

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*mˤrajʔ-s

meaH

mài

sell


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 57.1680% of movies

606th most common character in movies

974th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

卖

Unicode

U+8CE3

Shuowen

“，出物貨也。从出，从買。”


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