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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• 拐卖(拐賣) human trafficking
• 垄断贩卖(壟斷販賣) monopoly
• 卖光了(賣光了) to be sold out; to be out of stock
• 盗卖(盜賣) to steal and sell
• 卖风流(賣風流) to exert flirtatious allure; to entice coquettishly
• 卖卜(賣卜) to do trade as a fortune teller
• 清仓大甩卖(清倉大甩賣) clearance sale; fire sale
• 捣卖(搗賣) to resell at a profit
• 证券柜台买卖中心(證券櫃檯買賣中心) GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
• 老王卖瓜，自卖自夸(老王賣瓜，自賣自誇) every potter praises his own pot; all one's geese are swans
• 讨好卖乖(討好賣乖) to curry favor by showing obeisance
• 卖身(賣身) to prostitute oneself; to sell oneself into slavery
• 叛卖(叛賣) to betray
• 卖肉者(賣肉者) butcher
• 掠卖华工(掠賣華工) Chinese people press-ganged and sold into slavery during Western colonialism
• 卖主(賣主) seller
• 叫卖(叫賣) to hawk; to peddle
• 倒买倒卖(倒買倒賣) to buy and sell at a profit; to speculate
• 转卖(轉賣) to resell
• 家居卖场(家居賣場) furniture store; furniture mall
• 卖完(賣完) to be sold out
• 卖空(賣空) to sell short (finance)
• 强买强卖(強買強賣) to force somebody to buy or sell; to trade using coercion
• 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
• 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
• 贩卖(販賣) to sell
• 卖国(賣國) to betray one's country
• 私卖(私賣) to sell illicitly; to bootleg; to sell privately
• 卖国贼(賣國賊) traitor
• 荷兰式拍卖(荷蘭式拍賣) Dutch auction / descending-price auction
• 投机买卖(投機買賣) buying and selling on speculation
• 卖相(賣相) outward appearance; demeanor
• 外卖(外賣) to go; take out (relates to food bought at a restaurant)
• 卖方(賣方) seller (in contracts)
• 义卖(義賣) a jumble sale for good cause; a charity bazaar
• 卖关节(賣關節) to solicit a bribe; to accept a bribe
• 拍卖(拍賣) auction ; to sell at a reduced price; to dump
• 贩卖人口(販賣人口) trafficking in human beings
• 卖笑(賣笑) to work as a good-time girl; to prostitute oneself
• 倒卖(倒賣) to resell at a profit; to speculate
• 妈卖批(媽賣批) (vulgar) your mom's a prostitute
• 贩卖机(販賣機) vending machine
• 大卖场(大賣場) hypermarket; large warehouse-like self-service retail store
• 榷卖(榷賣) monopoly sales
• 公买公卖(公買公賣) buying and selling at fair prices
• 卖点(賣點) selling point
• 卖膏药的(賣膏藥的) to stay in a place with many people to sell medicine
• 卖力气(賣力氣) to make a living doing manual labor; to give something all one's got
• 得便宜卖乖(得便宜賣乖) to have benefited from something but pretend otherwise
• 义卖会(義賣會) bazaar

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卖关子

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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
• 卖爵 (賣爵) 請賣爵鬻子 — Xin Shu 新書, Scroll 3 — 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
• 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
• 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
• 坐卖 (坐賣) 遂坐賣宅縣官故貴 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《高祖功臣侯者年表》 Yearly Table of the Officials who became Marquises in the Time of Gaozu — 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
• 卖儥 (賣儥) 掌其賣儥之事 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 3