賣

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word 賣. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word 賣, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say 賣 in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word 賣 you have here. The definition of the word 賣 will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of賣, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: 𧶠, 卖, and 売
賣 U+8CE3, 賣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CE3
← 賢
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賤 →

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)

Derived characters

Descendants

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

Chinese

trad. 賣
simp. 卖
alternative forms 𧷓
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

Originally 𧷓, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *mreːs) : semantic 出 (“go out”) + phonetic 買 (OC *mreːʔ, “buy”).

出, which indicates exoactive semantics (Sagart, 1999), was eventually reduced to the etymologically unrelated 士.

Unrelated to 𧶠, which is used as a phonetic component in a number of characters.

Etymology

Exoactive of 買 (OC *mreːʔ, “to buy”) (Sagart, 1995; Schuessler, 2007; Baxter and Sagart, 2014), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g/m/s-laj ~ *r/s-lej ~ *b-rej (“to buy; to barter”); see there for more.

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Isn't the -s suffix in Old Chinese a causative / transitivizing element? In which case, /*mˤrajʔ-s/ "to sell" = /*mˤrajʔ/ "to buy" + /-s/ "to cause to do" → "to make someone buy", which makes sense both semantically and derivationally.”

Pronunciation

Note:
  • mâ̤ - vernacular;
  • mâi - literary.
Note:
  • bē/bōe/bǒe - vernacular;
  • māi - literary.
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
Baxter meaH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/mˠɛH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/mᵚæH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/maɨjH/
Li
Rong 		/mɛH/
Wang
Li 		/maiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/maiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mài
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		maai6
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 賣
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mài
Middle
Chinese 		‹ meaH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*mˁrajʔ-s/
English sell

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
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

  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.
    They sell vegetables and eggs in the marketplace.
    越賣越貴／越卖越贵 [Cantonese]  ―  jyut6 maai6 jyut6 gwai3   ―  the more it sells, the more expensive it grows
  2. to betray; to sell out
    出賣／出卖  ―  chūmài  ―  to betray
    賣國／卖国  ―  màiguó  ―  to betray one's country
    賣友求榮／卖友求荣  ―  màiyǒuqiúróng  ―  to betray someone to obtain promotion
    這個王八蛋居然把我給賣了！ [MSC, trad.]
    这个王八蛋居然把我给卖了！ [MSC, simp.]
    Zhège wángbadàn jūrán bǎ wǒ gěi mài le!
    The bastard unexpectedly sold me out!
  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
  5. (Cantonese, of the media) to publish (a piece of news)
    琴日報紙冇賣呢單新聞嘅？ [Cantonese, trad.]
    琴日报纸冇卖呢单新闻嘅？ [Cantonese, simp.]
    kam4 jat6 bou3 zi2 mou5 maai6 nei1 daan1 san1 man4-2 ge2?
    Why didn't newspaper publish this piece of news yesterday?

Synonyms

  • (to sell):

Antonyms

Compounds

Descendants

  • → Proto-Hmong-Mien: *mɛjH (“to sell”)

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

売

Kyūjitai

賣

Kanji

賣

(Jinmeiyō kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 売)

  1. to sell

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)

Korean

Hanja

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

Wikisource

賣 (eumhun 팔 매 (pal mae))

  1. hanja form? of 매 (“to sell”)

Compounds

Compounds

References

  • 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

Vietnamese

Han character

賣: Hán Việt readings: mại[1]
賣: Nôm readings: mải[2], mợi[2]

  1. chữ Hán form of mại (“to sell”).

References

  1. ^ Trần (1999).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hồ (1976).
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia