sài
compete
Original meaning:
thank offering
Simplified form of 賽. Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 塞 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "thank offering". The meaning later shifted to "compete".
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 赛
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
match | ||
match | ||
finals (of a competition) | ||
(sports) league | ||
season (sports) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 43.3125% of movies
351st most common character in movies
1064th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D5B |
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