Characters › 卖
8 strokes · radical 十 (ten) · traditional 賣
15 strokes · simplified 卖
A way to remember it
The mirror image of 买. Buying is a net over a shell; selling adds 士 on top — the goods going out rather than coming in.
A picture that makes the shape stick — not a claim about the character’s history.
Draft — written with AI help and not yet read by a person. What that means.
Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
Got it. Tell someone:
to sell; to betray
mài — to sell; to betray
Radical 十 (ten) · 8 strokes · traditional 賣
15 strokes · simplified 卖
A way to remember itThe mirror image of 买. Buying is a net over a shell; selling adds 士 on top — the goods going out rather than coming in.