卖 - Dong Chinese dictionary

mài

sell

Phonosemantic compound. 出 represents the meaning and 买 represents the sound. Simplified form of 賣.

Components

出 Meaning component

chū

go out

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 出 than it was in ancient scripts.

买 Sound Meaning component

mǎi

buy

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified 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 卖

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)

赎窦犊黩

Sound component in 5 characters (0 verified)

赎渎牍椟觌

Simplified component in 1 character (1 verified)

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Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 57.1680% of movies

606th most common character in movies

974th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	8
Traditional	賣
Unicode	U+5356

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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