塞
sèsāisài HSK6

stop up

塞 sè frequency
to block verb
(bound form) to block or obstruct; to be hindered; used in formal compounds and idioms like 茅塞顿开 máo​sè​dùn​kāi

他患重感冒，鼻子塞住了。

tā huàn zhòng​gǎn​mào, bí​zi sè zhù le.

He has a bad cold and his nose is stuffed up.

to evade verb
(bound form) to gloss over, evade, or perform a task perfunctorily as seen in 敷衍塞责 fū​yǎn​sè​zé
to fill
(literary) to fill or permeate
塞 sāi
to stuff verb
to fill or stuff in; to plug or stop up; to squeeze into a small space

秘书把信塞到一个信封里。

mì​shū bǎ xìn sāi dào yī​ge xìn​fēng lǐ.

The secretary stuffed the letter into an envelope.

我把头发塞到另一只耳朵后面。

wǒ bǎ tóu​fa sāi dào lìng​yī zhī ěr​duo hòu​miàn.

I tucked my hair behind my other ear.

stopper noun
(bound form) a stopper, cork, or plug
surname
a Chinese surname
塞 sài
border pass noun
(bound form) a place of strategic importance; a stronghold or border pass
Serbia
an abbreviation for 塞尔维亚 sài'ěr​wéi​yà

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,080th most common 137.4 per million
Movie subtitles
956th most common 113.3 per million appears in 32% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.9 per million appears in 18% of films
Written text
45.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+585E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)