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卖 — to sell; to betray

to sell; to betray; to spare no effort; to show off or flaunt

Pinyin
mài
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 卖: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

卖 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 卖 in the HSK syllabus: 7

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 卖màito sell; to betray; to spare no effortHSK 1
  2. 外卖wàimàito provide a takeout or home delivery meal; takeoutHSK 3
  3. 买卖mǎimaipurchase and sale; transaction; shop; storeHSK 5
  4. 出卖chūmàito offer for sale; to sell; to sell out; to betrayHSK 7–9
  5. 贩卖fànmàito sell; to peddle; to trafficHSK 7–9
  6. 拍卖pāimàito auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced priceHSK 7–9
  7. 专卖zhuānmàimonopoly; exclusive right to tradeHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.