賣

See also: 𧶠, 卖, and 売
賣 U+8CE3, 賣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CE3
← 賢
[U+8CE2] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賤 →
[U+8CE4]

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)

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
variant 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, OC *mreːs) : semantic 出 (“go out”) + phonetic 買 (OC *mreːʔ). Also ideogrammic compound (會意) .

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

Etymology

Causative of 買 (OC *mreːʔ, “to buy”).

Pronunciation
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
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
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. *[t] 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
  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

Compounds
Derived terms from 賣

Further reading

Japanese

Shinjitai

 売

Kyūjitai

 賣

Kanji
賣

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 売)

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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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