賽
賽 — sae
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 굿할 새
- Romanization
- sae
- English
- compete, contend; contest, race
- Mandarin
- sài
- Japanese on'yomi
- サイ
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 貝 (154, 10 residual)
- Unicode
- U+8CFD
How 賽 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 賽 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 塞, 貝.
Korean example words with 賽
- 답새答賽 Korean gloss: 신령이나 부처에게 보답하기 위하여 제사를 지냄. 또는 그 제사.
- 새신하다賽神 Korean gloss: 굿이나 푸닥거리를 하다.
- 새전하다賽錢 Korean gloss: 신령이나 부처 앞에 돈을 바치다.
- 보새하다報賽 Korean gloss: 해마다 가을 농사를 마친 뒤, 신의 은덕에 감사를 드리기 위하여 제사를 지내다.
- 새신만명賽神萬明 Korean gloss: 굿이나 푸닥거리를 하는 무당.
- 조기모새朝祈暮賽 Korean gloss: 신불(神佛)에게 아침저녁으로 참예(參詣)ㆍ기원하는 일.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 賽
- 賽さい dice; die
- 賽銭さいせん monetary offering; offertory
- 賽銭箱さいせんばこ offertory box
- 賽の河原さいのかわら Children's Limbo; futile; unrewarding
- 賽銭泥棒さいせんどろぼう thief who steals money from the offerings box at a shrine or temple; offerings thief
- 賽は投げられたさいはなげられた the die is cast; there is no going back; alea iacta est
Other hanja read “새”
Other hanja with radical 貝
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