卖 mài▶ ขาย

Stroke order

卖 is written in 8 strokes.

• 卖

Senses

1. to sell
2. to betray
3. to spare no effort
4. to show off or flaunt

Example sentences

• 这个商店卖水果吗？Zhège shāngdiàn mài shuǐguǒ ma?Does this store sell fruit?
• 我想卖我的手机。Wǒ xiǎng mài wǒ de shǒujī.I want to sell my cellphone.

Related words

• 出卖ขาย
• 贩卖การค้ามนุษย์, การลักลอบค้า

卖 is pronounced mài and means “ขาย”. You will meet it in HSK 2, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 卖 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.