Chinese Notes

塞 sāi

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; Unihan '塞')
sài noun a fortress
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文 , Subdomain: Military
Notes: As in 要塞 (Guoyu '塞' sài n 1; 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)
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)
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)

塞尺 gauge
塞巴斯蒂安 Sebastian (name)
塞翁失马(塞翁失馬) the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best / a blessing in disguise
心塞 to feel sick at heart / to feel stifled / to feel crushed
桑娇维塞(桑嬌維塞) Sangiovese (grape type)
塞尔维亚和黑山(塞爾維亞和黑山) Serbia and Montenegro
塞给(塞給) to slip somebody something / to press to accept / to insert surreptitiously / to foist off
抑塞 to repress / gloomy
南奥塞梯(南奧塞梯) South Ossetia
耳塞 earplug / earphone
斯宾塞(斯賓塞) Spencer or Spence (name)
塞舌尔卢比(塞舌爾盧比) Seychelles rupee
堵塞 to block
堵塞费(堵塞費) traffic congestion fee
交通堵塞 road congestion / traffic jam
地塞米松 dexamethasone
塞缪尔(塞繆爾) Samuel (name)
塞浦路斯镑(塞浦路斯鎊) Cypriot pound
巴塞尔(巴塞爾) Basel, Switzerland
闭门塞窦(閉門塞竇) to close doors and block openings / mounting a strict defense
肺栓塞 pulmonary embolism
壅塞 to be clogged up/to be congested
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
淤塞 choked with silt / silted up
阿塞拜疆 Azerbaijan
可塞 xi / ksi
柱塞 piston
血塞 blood obstruction
塞牙 to get food stuck between one's teeth

Truncated for common words

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
塞祷 (塞禱) 塞禱 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十五號令 Book 15 - Commands and Orders — 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
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
姦塞 (姦塞) 不足以禁姦塞邪 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一　原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 2
蔽塞 (蔽塞) 蔽塞障逆之君者 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 2
塞大 (塞大) 還塞大隧 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 定公 Lord Ding — count: 2
开塞 (開塞) 明於禁舍開塞之道 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十五　兵略訓 Chapter 15: Military Planning — count: 2