Radical 十

8 strokes

賣

ten 十 (4) + buy 买 (247) = sell 卖

Careful: the top looks a bit like “earth” (54a), but it isn’t!

[买卖 (247) mǎimài trade, business]

(At the cathedral in Rome) The pilgrim wants to buy a cross— and there’s no shortage of people to sell him one! / One trinket seller, a dwarf, is wearing a bishop’s miter in the hope that people will think his goods are more authentic.