IDENTITY
卖màito sell
HSK 1Top 610
CORE MEANING
to sell
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to sellHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 十ten radical (shí)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱十买
- goods on the stand
- gives the sound mài (mǎi → mài)
USAGE
Common words
卖东西mài dōngxito sell things
卖完màiwánsold out
Graded examples
他把车卖了。Tā bǎ chē mài le.HSK3
He sold his car.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Goods (十) put on the stall to sell — 买 plus a display stand.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #610
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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