賣

See also 卖, and 売

Translingual

shinjitai	売
simplified	卖
traditional	賣

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 出 (“output”) + 買 (“goods”)

Han character

賣 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土田中金 (GWLC), four-corner 4080₆, composition ⿱士買)

1. sell
2. betray
3. show off

Derived characters

• 讀, 續, 黷, 瀆, 犢, 藚, 櫝, 牘, 儥, 嬻, 匵, 𨽍, 韥, 韇, 鑟, 贕, 豄, 讟, 皾, 瓄, 殰, 凟

Descendants

• 売 卖

References

• KangXi: page 1209, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36825
• Dae Jaweon: page 1675, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3645, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8CE3

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Cantonese

Hanzi

賣 (simplified 卖, Yale maai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

賣

Readings

• On: ばい (bai), まい (mai)
• Kun: うる (uru)

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Korean

Hanja

賣 (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

賣 (simplified 卖, pinyin mài (mai4), Wade-Giles mai⁴)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

賣 (POJ māi/bē/bōe)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賣 (mại, mải, mợi)