卖 — Chinese character
卖
mài
to sell; to betray; to show off
- Pinyin
- mài
- Radical
- 24 ⼗ (Ten)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 十 买
- Formation
- pictophonetic — buy; meaning component 买; sound component 买
- Traditional
- 賣
Common words with 卖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 买卖 (買賣) | mǎi mài | to buy and sell |
| 买卖 (買賣) | mǎi mai | purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store |
| 出卖 (出賣) | chū mài | to offer for sale; to sell; to sell out; to betray |
| 拍卖 (拍賣) | pāi mài | to auction; auction sale |
| 贩卖 (販賣) | fàn mài | to sell; to peddle |
| 卖掉 (賣掉) | mài diào | to sell off |
| 卖淫 (賣淫) | mài yín | prostitution; to prostitute oneself |
| 卖出 (賣出) | mài chū | to sell; to reach (a price in an auction) |
| 卖国 (賣國) | mài guó | to betray one's country |
| 外卖 (外賣) | wài mài | (of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal; takeout (business) |
| 卖家 (賣家) | mài jiā | seller |
| 卖国贼 (賣國賊) | mài guó zéi | traitor |
English words written with 卖
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.