塞
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to plug; to stop up; to stuff in; (bound form) a stopper; a cork
13 strokes
Dict coverage rank #548 U+585E
How 塞 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
earth
How to remember it
stronghold · Heisig RSH #2564
hamster cage + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 塞 as their sound component
These characters all use 塞 (sāi) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 塞 sound component | sāi | to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress |
| 噻 | sāi | character used in translation |
Words containing 塞
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 塞尔维亚克罗地亚语 | Sài ěr wéi yà Kè luó dì yà yǔ | Serbo-Croatian (language) |
| 西塞山区 | Xī sài shān Qū | Xisaishan, a district of Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市[Huang2 shi2 Shi4], Hubei |
| 阿克塞县 | Ā kè sài Xiàn | see 阿克塞哈薩克族自治縣|阿克塞哈萨克族自治县[A1 ke4 sai4 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 塞尔维亚和黑山 | Sài ěr wéi yà hé Hēi shān | Serbia and Montenegro (a country that existed 2003–2006) |
| 塞尔特语 | Sài ěr tè yǔ | Celtic language |
| 阿克塞哈萨克族自治县 | Ā kè sài Hā sà kè zú Zì zhì xiàn | Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County, in Jiuquan City 酒泉市[Jiu3 quan2 Shi4], Gansu |
| 安塞区 | Ān sài Qū | Ansai, a district of Yan'an City 延安市[Yan2 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi |
| 西塞山 | Xī sài shān | see 西塞山區|西塞山区[Xi1 sai4 shan1 Qu1] |
| 塞尔维亚语 | Sài ěr wéi yà yǔ | Serbian (language) |
| 塞尔特 | Sài ěr tè | Celtic |
| 巴塞尔 | Bā sài ěr | Basel, Switzerland |
| 塞内加尔 | Sài nèi jiā ěr | Senegal |
| 加塞儿 | jiā sāi r | to push into a line out of turn; to cut in line; to jump the queue |
| 西塞罗 | Xī sài luó | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and philosopher |
| 火花塞 | huǒ huā sāi | spark plug |
| 塞尔维亚 | Sài ěr wéi yà | Serbia; Taiwan pr. [Se4er3wei2ya4] |
| 阿克塞 | Ā kè sài | see 阿克塞哈薩克族自治縣|阿克塞哈萨克族自治县[A1 ke4 sai4 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] |
| 蒙特塞拉特 | Méng tè sài lā tè | Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory) |
| 阿尔瓦塞特 | Ā ěr wǎ sài tè | Albacete (capital city of Spain's Albacete Province) |
| 塞维利亚 | Sài wéi lì yà | Seville, city in Andalusia, Spain |