HSK 6 · Money

贩卖 fànmài “to sell” in Chinese

Traditional 販賣

What 贩卖 means

  1. to sell
  2. to traffic in
  3. to peddle
  4. to traffic

How to say 贩卖

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale贩fàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale卖mài4th tone, falling

贩卖 in a sentence

  1. 他们在办公室安装了一台自动贩卖机。

    Tāmen zài bàngōngshì ānzhuāng le yì tái zìdòng fànmàijī.

    They installed a vending machine in the office.

    Sentence #5374479 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 这台自动贩卖机故障了。

    Zhè tái zìdòng fànmàijī gùzhàng le.

    This vending machine is out of order.

    Sentence #840431 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 贩卖 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 贩 (fàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
贩fànto deal in
  • 贝sea shell · bèiMeaning part
  • 反reverse · fǎnSound part

贝 hints at the meaning (sea shell); 反 (fǎn) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàn.

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 贩卖

贩 8 strokes · 卖 8 strokes

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

Words related to 贩卖

Words with 卖

卖mài · to sell外卖wàimài · takeaway (food)出卖chūmài · to betray

More words: Money & Economy

冻结dòngjié · to freeze (assets兑现duìxiàn · to fulfil (a promise)发财fācái · to get rich纺织fǎngzhī · textile分红fēnhóng · to share profits富裕fùyù · well-off供不应求gōngbùyìngqiú · demand exceeds supply共计gòngjì · to total

FAQs

贩卖 (fànmài) means “to sell” or “to traffic in”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fànmài: fàn with a 4th 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, 贩卖 is written 販賣. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fanmai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 贩卖 from the suggestions. Typing fanmai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
贩卖 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.