卖 (賣) mài

1. mài verb to sell
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '賣'; Guoyu '賣' v 1; Kroll 2015 '賣' 1, p. 293; Unihan '賣')
2. mài verb to betray
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '賣'; Guoyu '賣' v 2; Unihan '賣')
3. mài verb to show off
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '賣'; Guoyu '賣' v 3; Kroll 2015 '賣' 2, p. 293; Unihan '賣')
4. mài proper noun Mai
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '賣' n)

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• 投机买卖(投機買賣) buying and selling on speculation
• 热卖品(熱賣品) hot-selling property
• 王婆卖瓜，自卖自夸(王婆賣瓜，自賣自誇) every potter praises his own pot; all one's geese are swans
• 专卖店(專賣店) specialty store
• 卖空(賣空) to sell short (finance)
• 卖座(賣座) (of a movie, show etc) to attract large audiences
• 甩卖(甩賣) to mark down (the price of goods); to sell off cheap
• 卖国求荣(賣國求榮) to sell out the nation and seek glory
• 标卖(標賣) to sell at marked price; to sell by tender
• 葫芦里卖的是什么药(葫蘆裡賣的是什麼藥) what has (he) got up (his) sleeve?; what's going on?
• 贩卖机(販賣機) vending machine
• 卖命(賣命) to throw one's life in for; to haplessly give one's life for; to sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group; to pour in one's utmost effort; to shed one's last ounce of strength for
• 买空卖空(買空賣空) to speculate; to play the market; to sell hot air
• 贱卖(賤賣) to sell cheaply
• 出卖(出賣) to sell ; to betray
• 装疯卖傻(裝瘋賣傻) to play the fool ; to feign madness
• 热卖(熱賣) hot selling; best seller
• 现炒现卖(現炒現賣) to fry and sell on the spot
• 卖出(賣出) to sell
• 卖掉(賣掉) to sell off; to get rid of in a sale
• 公买公卖(公買公賣) buying and selling at fair prices
• 卖力(賣力) to really put out energy for
• 买官卖官(買官賣官) buying and selling of official positions
• 挂羊头卖狗肉(掛羊頭賣狗肉) to hang a sheep's head while selling dog meat; to cheat; dishonest advertising
• 买卖(買賣) trading; business; buying and selling; business dealings; transactions
• 生炒热卖(生炒熱賣) to sell while it's still hot
• 倒买倒卖(倒買倒賣) to buy and sell at a profit; to speculate
• 一锤子买卖(一錘子買賣) a one-off, short-sighted deal; a one-shot, all-out attempt
• 特卖(特賣) to have a sale; sale
• 变卖(變賣) to sell off
• 掠卖华工(掠賣華工) Chinese people press-ganged and sold into slavery during Western colonialism
• 卖傻(賣傻) to play stupid; to act like an idiot
• 大卖场(大賣場) hypermarket; large warehouse-like self-service retail store
• 强买强卖(強買強賣) to force somebody to buy or sell; to trade using coercion
• 贩卖人口(販賣人口) trafficking in human beings
• 叛卖(叛賣) to betray
• 拍卖会(拍賣會) auction
• 卖萌(賣萌) to act cute
• 卖春(賣春) to engage in prostitution
• 趸卖(躉賣) to sell wholesale
• 义卖会(義賣會) bazaar
• 盗卖(盜賣) to steal and sell
• 卖家(賣家) seller
• 兜卖(兜賣) to peddle; to hawk
• 热炒热卖(熱炒熱賣) to sell hot food freshly cooked; to teach what one has just learned; enthusiasm of the new convert
• 特卖会(特賣會) promotional event; sale
• 卖主(賣主) seller
• 卖破绽(賣破綻) to feign an opening in order to hoodwink the opponent (in a fight, combat etc)
• 无所不卖(無所不賣) to sell anything; to sell everything
• 妈卖批(媽賣批) (vulgar) your mom's a prostitute

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卖炭翁

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• 卷九十七　志第四十五下: 食貨五 Volume 97 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 5 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 45
• 卷111 刑罰志七 Volume 111 Treatise 7: Criminal Punishment Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 43
• 卷一百八十三 志第一百三十六 食貨下五 Volume 183 Treatises 136: Finance and Economics 2e History of Song 宋史 — count: 40
• 卷一百八十二 志第一百三十五 食貨下四 Volume 182 Treatises 135: Finance and Economics 2d History of Song 宋史 — count: 32
• 卷一百八十一 志第一百三十四 食貨下三 Volume 181 Treatises 134: Finance and Economics 2c History of Song 宋史 — count: 29
• 卷一百八十四 志第一百三十七 食貨下六 Volume 184 Treatises 137: Finance and Economics 2f History of Song 宋史 — count: 28
• 卷一百八十五 志第一百三十八 食貨下七 Volume 185 Treatises 138: Finance and Economics 2g History of Song 宋史 — count: 24
• 卷一百〇四　志第五十二:　刑法三 Volume 104 Treatises 57: Punishment and Law 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 23
• 卷一百七十三 志第一百二十六 食貨上一 Volume 173 Treatises 126: Finance and Economics 1a History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
• 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 19

Collocations

• 卖爵 (賣爵) 請賣爵鬻子 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — count: 11
• 卖买 (賣買) 七曰聽賣買以質劑 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 11
• 卖子 (賣子) 民無𥼷賣子數矣 — Guanzi 管子, 乘馬數第六十九 Chapter 69: The Number of Horses in a Team — count: 9
• 民卖 (民賣) 四郊之民賣賤 — Guanzi 管子, 輕重丁第八十三 Chapter 83: Weight IV — count: 5
• 𥼷卖 (𥼷賣) 民無𥼷賣子數矣 — Guanzi 管子, 乘馬數第六十九 Chapter 69: The Number of Horses in a Team — count: 4
• 生卖 (生賣) 齊王田廣以酈生賣己 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《淮陰侯列傳》 Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin — count: 3
• 卖浆 (賣漿) 薛公藏於賣漿家 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《魏公子列傳》 Biographiy of the prince of Wei — count: 3
• 卖田 (賣田) 成侯賣田忌 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孟嘗君列傳》 Biography of Lord Mengchang — count: 3
• 卖宅 (賣宅) 欲賣宅而避之 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說林下第二十三 Chapter 23: Collections of Persuasions II — count: 3
• 卖友 (賣友) 天下稱酈況賣友 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷四十一 樊酈滕灌傅靳周傳 Volume 41: Fan, Li, Teng, Guan, Fu, Jin and Zhou — count: 3