賣

See also: 𧶠, 卖, and 売

Translingual

Traditional	賣
Shinjitai	売
Simplified	卖

Han character

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

Descendants

• 売 卖

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		賣
simp.		卖
alternative forms		𧷓 historical 𧷵 ‡ 𧷨 ‡

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 賣
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (買) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
買	*mreːʔ
蕒	*mreːʔ
嘪	*mreːʔ
鷶	*mreːʔ
賣	*mreːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *mreːs) : semantic 出 (“go out”) + phonetic 買 (OC *mreːʔ). Also ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) .

出 indicates the exporting side of the selling/buying deal. It was reduced to 士.

Etymology

Causative of 買 (OC *mreːʔ, “to buy”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 賣

1. to sell

   賣完／卖完  ―  màiwán  ―  to sell out

   • 這本書不賣。／这本书不卖。  ―  Zhè běn shū bù mài.  ―  This book is not for sale.

   • 他們在集市賣蔬菜和雞蛋。 [MSC, trad.]
     他们在集市卖蔬菜和鸡蛋。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tāmen zài jíshì mài shūcài hé jīdàn. [Pinyin]

     They sell vegetables and eggs in the marketplace.

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2. to betray

   出賣／出卖  ―  chūmài  ―  to betray

   賣友求榮／卖友求荣  ―  màiyǒuqiúróng  ―  to betray someone to obtain promotion

3. to spare no effort, to do one's best
4. to show off

   賣弄／卖弄  ―  màinòng  ―  to show off

   賣功／卖功  ―  màigōng  ―  to show off one's merit

Further reading

• “Entry #11424”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Shinjitai	売
Kyūjitai	賣

Kanji

賣

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 売)

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Readings

• Go-on: め (me)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai)
• Tō-on: まい (mai)
• Kun: うる (uru, 賣る)、うれる (ureru, 賣れる)

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Korean

Hanja

賣 (eumhun 팔 매 (pal mae))

1. hanja form^? of 매 (“to sell”)

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Vietnamese

Han character

賣: Hán Nôm readings: mại, mải, mợi

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