IDENTITY
塞sāito block; to stuff; border pass (sài)
HSK 5Top 950
CORE MEANING
to block; to stuff; border pass (sài)
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to block; to stuffHSK5
- 2.border passHSK6
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 土earth radical (tǔ)
- strokes
- 13
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱𡨄土
- earth (filling the gap)
- part of the structure
USAGE
Common words
堵塞dǔsèto block
塞满sāimǎnto stuff full
边塞biānsàifrontier
Graded examples
他往包里塞了很多东西。Tā wǎng bāo lǐ sāi le hěn duō dōngxi.HSK6
He stuffed many things into the bag.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 寒
LEARNING
Memory aid
Earth (土) filling the gap under the roof — stuffing, blocking.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #950
- 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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