sell
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
そうなんだよね。お店に売ってないんだ。
Sou nan da yo ne. Omise ni utte nain da.
I know. The store doesn't sell that kind.
大きい電池は売り切れなんですけど、小さいのはまだありますよ。
Ookii denchi wa urikire nan desu kedo, chiisai no wa mada arimasu yo.
We're out of the big batteries, but I still have the small ones.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0