塞
Serbia / Serbian / abbr. for 塞爾維亞|塞尔维亚[Sai1 er3 wei2 ya4]
to stop up / to squeeze in / to stuff / cork / stopper
strategic pass / tactical border position
塞 character breakdown
(bound form) base; foundation / (bound form) radical (chemistry) / (bound form) gay (loanword from English into Cantonese, Jyutping: gei1, followed by orthographic borrowing from Cantonese)
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]
宀
=
丶
+
冖
:
Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).
Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
Characters with 塞 as component
used in transliteration
small, minute / lacking sincerity
Words with 塞
congestion / to block / to congest / to crowd / to choke / to cram / to fill up / to stuff / to take up all the space
to skimp on the job; to work half-heartedly; not to take the job seriously
to skimp on the job / to work half-heartedly / not to take the job seriously
Sentences with 塞
塞 currently does not appear in any sentence.