趸卖
dǔn​mài

wholesale

趸 dǔn sell or buy wholesale Simplified

A ten-thousand 万 square-foot 足 warehouse

Components

万
万 Meaning component
wàn ten thousand
足
足 Meaning component
zú foot

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

卖 mài, mai sell Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 出 represents the meaning and 买 represents the sound. Simplified form of 賣.

Components

出
出 Meaning component
chū go out
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 出 than it was in ancient scripts.
买
买 SoundMeaning component
mǎi buy

Component uses

Sound (0 of 5 verified)

赎渎牍椟觌

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

赎犊黩

Simplified (1)

读

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode

躉 sell or buy wholesale Traditional

A ten-thousand 萬 square-foot 足 warehouse

Components

萬
萬 Meaning component
wàn ten thousand
足
足 Meaning component
zú foot

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangtuːnʔ

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang

賣 mài, mai sell Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 出 represents the meaning and 買 represents the sound.

Components

出
出 Meaning component
chū go out
Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 出 than it was in ancient scripts.
買
買 SoundMeaning component
mǎi buy

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 3 verified)

牘贖瀆

Meaning (0 of 3 verified)

犢贖黷

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmeaHmˤrajʔ-s sell

說文解字

《說文》：“，出物貨也。从出，从買。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)