Reading
Also read 색 (saek)
stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier; fortress
변방 새byeonbang sae
Every hanja has a two-part name in Korean: what it means, then how it's read. Here 변방 (byeonbang) is the Korean for stop up, and 새 (sae) is the reading. Say 변방 새 out loud and a Korean speaker knows which character you mean.
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- ⼟ 32
- Beyond radical
- 10
- Mandarin
- sāi
- Japanese on
- soku
- Japanese kun
- fusagu
Vocabulary
Words that use 塞
Tap one to see what it means and how it's built. Every character in these words has its own page here.
blockhouse, a fortress (for protection)
Character by character necessary + stop up
Character data from the Unicode Unihan database. Korean reading, 훈음 and vocabulary from the libhangul hanja dictionary by Choe Hwanjin (BSD 3-Clause). English translations of whole words from kengdic (MPL 2.0 / LGPL 2.0+), a community dictionary — the occasional entry is wrong.Levels are derived, not official — they are not 한자능력검정시험 급수. The ordering combines Unihan’s kGradeLevel (the school year a character is introduced in Hong Kong, present on 1,539 of the 1,800), total stroke count, and how many national standards treat the character as core.