Unicode: U+5356

Pinyin: mài

Definition

* 拿东西换钱,与"买"相对。 ~菜。~身。买~。~方。~狗皮膏药(喻说得好听,实际上是骗人)。 * 叛卖,出卖国家、民族或别人的利益。 ~友,~国求荣。~身投靠。 * 尽量使出力气。 ~力。~命。~劲儿。 * 显示自己,表现自己。 ~弄。~乖。倚老~老

sell; betray; show off

Structure

卖 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Bronze Inscriptions
c. 1200–221 BCE (Shang–Zhou; continues into the Warring States)
Inscriptions cast or engraved on ritual bronzes, especially prominent from the Western Zhou onward; a major source for early political, ritual, and social history.Wikipedia ->
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Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_8CE3
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC