mài
sell
Phonosemantic compound. 出 represents the meaning and 買 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
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 | |
Unicode | U+8CE3 |
Shuowen | “,出物貨也。从出,从買。” |
Sources
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