塞 · sāi
stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress
- Mandarin
- sāi
- Cantonese
- sak1
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 塞 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 새
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
- 색
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+585E
- Radical
- 土 · 32
- Strokes
- 13 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
13 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 塞
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- sojH · 先代 反切 · #2529
- Middle Chinese
- sok · 蘇則 反切 · #3731
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 14344 · sojH = 蟹開一去咍心 · sok = 曾開一入登心
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- sāi
- kCantonese
- sak1
- kDefinition
- stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress
- kTotalStrokes
- 13
- kRSUnicode
- 32.10
- kGradeLevel
- 4
- kTGH
- 2013:3025
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- sāi,sè,sài 10475.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- sāi 0981.060 · sài 0981.130 · sè 0989.070
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- sāi 319.130 · sài 319.160 · sè 322.010
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- sāi(75) sè(13)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- sāi粵sak1 sè粵sak1 sài粵coi3
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 先代 蘇則
- Kangxi positions
- 0236.090
- Guangyun positions
- 390.10 530.14
- GSR references
- 0908a
- Cangjie
- JTCG
- Four-corner
- 3010.4