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賣
賣
Translingual
| Traditional | 賣 |
|---|---|
| Shinjitai | 売 |
| Simplified | 卖 |
Han character
賣 (radical 154 貝+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 土田中金 (GWLC), four-corner 40806, composition ⿱士買)
Derived characters
Descendants
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
Chinese
| trad. | 賣 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 卖 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 賣
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| Bronze inscriptions | Large seal script | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (買) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 買 | *mreːʔ |
| 蕒 | *mreːʔ |
| 嘪 | *mreːʔ |
| 鷶 | *mreːʔ |
| 賣 | *mreːs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mreːs) : semantic 出 (“output”) + phonetic 買 (OC *mreːʔ, “goods”). Also ideogrammic compound (會意) .
出 indicates the exporting side of the selling/buying deal. It was reduced to 士.
Etymology
Exoactive of 買 (OC *mreːʔ, “to buy”).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): maai6
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mai
- Min Dong (BUC): mâ̤
- Min Nan (POJ): bē / bōe / māi
- Wu (Wiktionary): ma (T3)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˋ
- Wade-Giles: mai4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: may
- IPA (key): /maɪ̯⁵¹/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maai6
- Yale: maaih
- Cantonese Pinyin: maai6
- IPA (key): /mɑːi̯²²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mai
- Hakka Romanization System: mai
- Hagfa Pinyim: mai4
- IPA: /ma̯i⁵⁵/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: mâ̤
- IPA (key): /mɑ²⁴²/
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bē / bōe / māi
- Tâi-lô: bē / buē / māi
- Phofsit Daibuun: be, boe, mai
- IPA (Xiamen): /be²²/, /bue²²/, /maɪ²²/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /be⁴¹/, /bue⁴¹/, /maɪ⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /be²²/, /bue²²/, /maɪ²²/
- IPA (Taipei): /be³³/, /bue³³/, /maɪ³³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /be³³/, /bue³³/, /maɪ³³/
- Note: bē/bōe - vernacular, māi - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ma (T3)
- IPA (key): /mᴀ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 賣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) |
| Final (韻) | 佳 (31) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 莫懈切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/mˠɛH/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/mᵚæH/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/mæiH/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/maɨjH/ |
| Li Rong |
/mɛH/ |
| Wang Li |
/maiH/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/maiH/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
mài |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
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| Character | 賣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 8731 |
| Phonetic component |
買 |
| Rime group |
支 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
賣 |
| Old Chinese |
/*mreːs/ |
Definitions
賣
Compounds
Derived terms from 賣
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References
- (Min Nan) “Entry #11424”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Japanese
Kanji
賣
(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)
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Readings
Korean
Hanja
賣 • (mae) (hangeul 매, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)
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Vietnamese
Han character
賣 (mại, mải, mợi)
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