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; 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)
Contained in
- 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
Also contained in
塞族 、 塞拉耶佛 、 塞韦里诺 、 喉塞音 、 诺塞斯 、 紫塞 、 塞勒姆 、 清小舌塞音 、 塞尔维亚 、 阿克塞哈萨克族自治县 、 塞斯纳 、 吕塞尔斯海姆 、 优婆塞 、 清齿龈塞音 、 河北塞罕坝国家森林公园 、 浊唇齿塞音 、 安塞县 、 塞建陀天 、 米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉 、 浊小舌塞音 、 巴塞罗那 、 巴塞隆纳
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷八十四 志第六十 河渠二 Volume 84 Treatises 60: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 53
- 卷九十一 志第四十四 河渠一 Volume 91 Treatises 44: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 52
- 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
- 卷九十四下 匈奴傳 Volume 94b: Traditions of the Xiongnu 2 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 44
- 卷三百二十七 列傳第二百十五 外國八 韃靼 Volume 327 Biographies 215: Foreign States 8 History of Ming 明史 — count: 38
- 卷九十四上 匈奴傳 Volume 94a: Traditions of the Xiongnu 1 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 35
- 卷八十七 西羌傳 Volume 87: Treatise on the Western Qiang Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 35
- 卷九十 烏桓鮮卑列傳 Volume 90: Treatise on the Wuhuan, Xianbei Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 29
- 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
- 卷二百三十八 列傳第一百二十六 李成梁 麻貴 Volume 238 Biographies 126: Li Chengliang, Ma Gui History of Ming 明史 — count: 28
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