HSK 6 · Verbs

出卖 chūmài “to betray” in Chinese

Traditional 出賣

What 出卖 means

  1. to betray
  2. to sell out
  3. to sell
  4. to offer for sale

How to say 出卖

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale出chū1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale卖mài4th tone, falling

出卖 in a sentence

  1. 他出卖了我。

    Tā chūmài le wǒ.

    He betrayed me.

    Sentence #332784 from Tatoeba

  2. 一个真正的绅士不会出卖他的朋友。

    Yí ge zhēnzhèng de shēnshì bú huì chūmài tā de péngyou.

    A true gentleman never betrays his friends.

    Sentence #333581 from Tatoeba

How 出卖 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 出 (chū) with each of its parts in a different colour
出chūto go out; to come out
  • 屮sprout · chè
  • 凵open box · kǎn

Memory aidA foot stepping up out of an opening 凵: to go out.

The character 卖 (mài) with each of its parts in a different colour
卖màito sell
  • 十ten · shí
  • 买to buy · mǎiMeaning part

买 hints at the meaning (to buy); 买 (mǎi) hints at the sound. Compare it with mài.

How to write 出卖

出 5 strokes · 卖 8 strokes

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出卖 (chūmài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 出卖 (chūmài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 出卖

Words with 出

出租车chūzūchē · taxi出chū · to go out出国chūguó · to go abroad出来chūlái · to come out出门chūmén · to go out出去chūqù · to go out出院chūyuàn · to leave hospital出生chūshēng · to be born出现chūxiàn · to appear演出yǎnchū · to act (in a play)

Words with 卖

卖mài · to sell外卖wàimài · takeaway (food)贩卖fànmài · to sell

More words: Common Verbs

吃苦chīkǔ · to endure hardship充当chōngdāng · to serve as重叠chóngdié · to overlap储存chǔcún · to store处置chǔzhì · to deal with刺cì · thorn伺候cìhou · to serve凑合còuhe · to make do

FAQs

出卖 (chūmài) means “to betray” or “to sell out”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it chūmài: chū with a 1st tone, then mài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 出卖 is written 出賣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type chumai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 出卖 from the suggestions. Typing chumai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
出卖 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.