sāi, sài, sè
stop up
Depicts two hands (廾) stuffing various objects (工) into an enclosed space (宀). The 土 (earth) component was added later.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[s]ˤək-s | sojH | sài | frontier |
*[s]ˤək-s | sojH | sài | pass (n.) |
*[s]ˤək | sok | sè | stop up, block (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 31.8116% of movies
956th most common character in movies
1080th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+585E |
Shuowen | “塞,隔也。从土,从。” |
Sources
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