塞
3 readings · tap one to hear it
to plug; to stop up; to stuff in; (bound form) a stopper; a cork
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 土 +10
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 塞
- Common rank
- #548
- Unicode
- U+585E
Sound it out + = · + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
stronghold · Heisig RSH #2564
hamster cage + 土 soil
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 塞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 塞尔维亚克罗地亚语 | Serbo-Croatian (language) | |
| 西塞山区 | Xisaishan, a district of Huangshi City 黃石市|黄石市[Huang2 shi2 Shi4], Hubei | |
| 阿克塞县 | see 阿克塞哈薩克族自治縣|阿克塞哈萨克族自治县[A1 ke4 sai4 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 塞尔维亚和黑山 | Serbia and Montenegro (a country that existed 2003–2006) | |
| 塞尔特语 | Celtic language | |
| 阿克塞哈萨克族自治县 | Aksay Kazakh Autonomous County, in Jiuquan City 酒泉市[Jiu3 quan2 Shi4], Gansu | |
| 安塞区 | Ansai, a district of Yan'an City 延安市[Yan2 an1 Shi4], Shaanxi | |
| 西塞山 | see 西塞山區|西塞山区[Xi1 sai4 shan1 Qu1] | |
| 塞尔维亚语 | Serbian (language) | |
| 塞尔特 | Celtic | |
| 巴塞尔 | Basel, Switzerland | |
| 塞内加尔 | Senegal | |
| 加塞儿 | to push into a line out of turn; to cut in line; to jump the queue | |
| 西塞罗 | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), Roman statesman, orator and philosopher | |
| 火花塞 | spark plug | |
| 塞尔维亚 | Serbia; Taiwan pr. [Se4er3wei2ya4] | |
| 阿克塞 | see 阿克塞哈薩克族自治縣|阿克塞哈萨克族自治县[A1 ke4 sai4 Ha1 sa4 ke4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 蒙特塞拉特 | Montserrat (Caribbean island, a British Overseas Territory) | |
| 阿尔瓦塞特 | Albacete (capital city of Spain's Albacete Province) | |
| 塞维利亚 | Seville, city in Andalusia, Spain |
Sound family
These characters use 塞 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 塞 sound part | to stop up, to seal, to cork, to block; pass, frontier; fortress | |
| 噻 | character used in translation |