塞 sāi
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sāi
verb
to stop up; to block; to seal; to cork
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: Also pronounced sè or sēi (Guoyu '塞' sāi v 1; Kroll 2015 '塞' sāi 1, p. 395; Unihan '塞') -
sài
noun
a fortress
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Military
Notes: As in 要塞; may refer to the great Wall (Guoyu '塞' sài n 1; Kroll 2015 '塞' sài 1, p. 395; Unihan '塞') -
sài
noun
a pass; a frontier
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 边境 (Guoyu '塞' sài n 2; Unihan '塞') -
sè
verb
to remedy
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 補救 (Guoyu '塞' sè v 4) -
sāi
noun
a stopper; a seal
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As in 塞子; for example, 瓶塞 'bottle stopper' (Guoyu '塞' sāi n 1) -
sè
verb
to fill
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 充满, as in 充塞 (Guoyu '塞' sè v 2; Kroll 2015 '塞' sāi 1b, p. 395) -
sāi
verb
to prohibit; to restrain
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '塞' sāi 1a, p. 395) -
sāi
verb
to compensate; to supply
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '塞' sāi 1c, p. 395) -
sài
noun
name of a board game
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: As a variant of 簺 (Kroll 2015 '塞' sài 3, p. 395) -
sài
noun
repayment to deities
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: In the sense of 酬报神明 (Guoyu '塞' sài n 2; Kroll 2015 '塞' sài 2, p. 395) -
sè
verb
to stop up; to block; to seal; to cork
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: As in 堵塞 (Guoyu '塞' sè v 1; Unihan '塞') -
sāi
verb
blocked; obstructed; jammed
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 塞车 'traffic jam' (Guoyu '塞' sāi v 2)
Contained in
- 加塞儿(加塞兒) to push into a line out of turn; to cut in line; to queue-jump
- 塞翁失马焉知非福(塞翁失馬焉知非福) the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best; a blessing in disguise
- 桑娇维塞(桑嬌維塞) Sangiovese (grape type)
- 边塞(邊塞) frontier fortress
- 塞车(塞車) a traffic jam
- 赭衣塞涂(赭衣塞塗) [so many] convicts [that they are] blocking the road
- 南奥塞梯(南奧塞梯) South Ossetia
- 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那共和国(波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那共和國) Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 语塞(語塞) to be at a loss for words; speechless
- 疾雷不及塞耳 a bolt of thunder claps there is no time to block one's ears
- 堵塞 to block
- 可塞 xi; ksi
- 耳塞 earplug; earphone
- 塞尔特语(塞爾特語) Celtic language
- 塞翁失马安知非福(塞翁失馬安知非福) the old man lost his mare, but it all turned out for the best; a blessing in disguise
- 塞给(塞給) to slip somebody something; to press to accept; to insert surreptitiously; to foist off
- 夹塞儿(夾塞兒) to cut into a line; queue-jumping
- 火花塞 spark plug
- 塞渊(塞淵) honest and far-seeing
- 塞尔达(塞爾達) Zelda (in Legend of Zelda video game)
- 四塞 four directions; the borders of a country ; to block all directions
- 塞尺 gauge
- 滞塞(滯塞) to obstruct
- 塞尔维亚语(塞爾維亞語) Serbian
- 杜塞尔多夫(杜塞爾多夫) Düsseldorf (Germany)
- 搪塞 to muddle through; to fob somebody off; to beat around the bush; to dodge
- 闭塞眼睛捉麻雀(閉塞眼睛捉麻雀) to catch sparrows blindfolded; to act blindly
Also contained in
路易·皮埃尔·阿尔都塞 、 塞拉耶佛 、 浊硬颚塞音 、 巴塞罗那 、 浊双唇塞音 、 塞拉利昂 、 阿克塞县 、 塞浦路斯 、 浊齿龈塞音 、 浊小舌塞音 、 奥塞罗 、 塞种人 、 米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉 、 塞人 、 清软颚塞音 、 清齿塞音 、 塞韦里诺 、 麻萨诸塞 、 塞勒姆 、 清双唇塞音 、 塞斯纳 、 萨默塞特郡 、 诺塞斯 、 塞琉西亚
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- 卷八十三 志第五十九 河渠一 Volume 83 Treatises 59: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 49
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- 卷九十四上 匈奴傳 Volume 94a: Traditions of the Xiongnu 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
- 卷八十九 南匈奴列傳 Volume 89: Treatise on the Southern Xiongnu Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 29
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Collocations
- 决塞 (決塞) 決塞 — Guanzi 管子, 七法第六 Chapter 6: Seven Methods — count: 9
- 塞井 (塞井) 塞井夷灶 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 5
- 塞邪 (塞邪) 不足以禁姦塞邪 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一 原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 3
- 塞不可 (塞不可) 塞不可 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五 雜守 Book 15 - Miscellaneous Measures in Defense — count: 2
- 允塞 (允塞) 王猶允塞 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧常武 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Chang Wu — count: 2
- 塞民 (塞民) 故塞民之養 — Guanzi 管子, 國蓄第七十三 Chapter 73: State Reserves — count: 2
- 固塞 (固塞) 固塞險阻 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九 主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 2
- 九塞 (九塞) 山有九塞 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷四 墜形訓 Chapter 4: Terrestrial Forms — count: 2
- 塞险阻 (塞險阻) 固塞險阻 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷九 主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods — count: 2
- 夹塞 (夾塞) 夾塞兩川 — Guanzi 管子, 霸形第二十二 Chapter 22: Ba Xing — count: 2