<p>賖 is listed in <em>Hanyu Da Cidian</em> and defined as:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>shē<br>
  同“賒1”。</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The entry for 賒 says:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>1 买物延期交款。</p>
</blockquote>

<hr>

<p><a href="http://zisea.com/zscontent.asp?uni=8CD6" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Zisea</a> also just notes:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>同【赊】。 </p>
</blockquote>

<p>Not sure if their info is from 字海 or 汉语大字典 but there is no mention of Chữ Nôm in either of the references. It seems to just be treated as a variant in modern Chinese.</p>

<hr>

<p><a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B3%96" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wiktionary</a> also gives the following references:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p><strong>参考</strong><br>
  - 大字源：1673页，第14字<br>
  - 汉语大字典：第6卷，3643页，第2字<br>
  - 宋本广韵：165页，第3字<br>
  - 辞海：1275页，第5行，第4字<br>
  - Unihan数据：U+8CD6</p>
</blockquote>

<p>and only mentions:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>异体字<br>
   赊 </p>
</blockquote>

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Mou某
<p>賒 is clearly defined as “delaying payment for something” in Chinese dictionaries; it commonly appears in the phrase “賒帳”, which has a similar meaning. </p>

<p>賖 is a Chữ Nôm used to write “xa” in Vietnamese, which means “far”. To me, it seems like 賖 is a corruption of 賒, since 賒 is pronounced like “xa” as far as I know. On the other hand, there is no entry for “賖” in Chinese dictionaries, and might be a Vietnamese innovation. However, that would also be weird since its pronunciation is markedly different than other characters which also have the 余 component.</p>

<p>余- dư
餘- dư</p>

<p>Has 賖 ever been used in Chinese? Is it related to 賒?</p>

<p>EDIT: AFAIK, 賖 is also used for xơ, but this sound also doesn’t come close to the expected pronunciation.</p>

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2020-04-20T11:29:47.770Z
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dROOOze
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This means that 佘 and 余 were once the same character?
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Yeah, so maybe the corruption process is the other way round. 佘 is a phonetic corruption of 余. Remember that 余 was originally very similar sounding to 舍. Wiktionary proposes that the part underneath the hat of 余 was corrupted into 示 to give a sound hint, as by the Ming era, 余 sounded nothing like 舍. (I didn't look too deeply into this)
dROOOze
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That reasoning process wasn't entirely clear, let me rephrase: Components originally containing 余 as a sound hint would have ended up sounding like both "yu" and "she" in early Mandarin, as "she" and "yu" were originally something like /*la/. To facilitate the use of the sound hint 余 in characters which sound later like "she", part of the 余 component in characters sounding like "she" was corrupted into 示.
dROOOze
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btw，賒賬 instead of 赊帳
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Is 賖 just a variant of 賒？
# Is 賖 just a variant of 賒？

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-04-20)

賒 is clearly defined as “delaying payment for something” in Chinese dictionaries; it commonly appears in the phrase “賒帳”, which has a similar meaning.

賖 is a Chữ Nôm used to write “xa” in Vietnamese, which means “far”. To me, it seems like 賖 is a corruption of 賒, since 賒 is pronounced like “xa” as far as I know. On the other hand, there is no entry for “賖” in Chinese dictionaries, and might be a Vietnamese innovation. However, that would also be weird since its pronunciation is markedly different than other characters which also have the 余 component.

余- dư
餘- dư

Has 賖 ever been used in Chinese? Is it related to 賒?

EDIT: AFAIK, 賖 is also used for xơ, but this sound also doesn’t come close to the expected pronunciation.

**Tags:** characters, etymology
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: http://www.guoxuedashi.com/zidian/8CD6.html  
> **username_0**: This means that 佘 and 余 were once the same character?  
> **username_1**: Yeah, so maybe the corruption process is the other way round. 佘 is a phonetic corruption of 余. Remember that 余 was originally very similar sounding to 舍. Wiktionary proposes that the part underneath the hat of 余 was corrupted into 示 to give a sound hint, as by the Ming era, 余 sounded nothing like 舍. (I didn't look too deeply into this)  
> **username_1**: That reasoning process wasn't entirely clear, let me rephrase: Components originally containing 余 as a sound hint would have ended up sounding like both "yu" and "she" in early Mandarin, as "she" and "yu" were originally something like /*la/. To facilitate the use of the sound hint 余 in characters which sound later like "she", part of the 余 component in characters sounding like "she" was corrupted into 示.  
> **username_2**: btw，賒賬 instead of 赊帳  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_3 on 2020-04-20. Score: 2

賖 is listed in *Hanyu Da Cidian* and defined as:

> shē  
> 同“賒1”。

The entry for 賒 says:

> 1 买物延期交款。

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[Zisea](http://zisea.com/zscontent.asp?uni=8CD6) also just notes:

> 同【赊】。

Not sure if their info is from 字海 or 汉语大字典 but there is no mention of Chữ Nôm in either of the references. It seems to just be treated as a variant in modern Chinese.

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[Wiktionary](https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%B3%96) also gives the following references:

> **参考**  
> - 大字源：1673页，第14字  
> - 汉语大字典：第6卷，3643页，第2字  
> - 宋本广韵：165页，第3字  
> - 辞海：1275页，第5行，第4字  
> - Unihan数据：U+8CD6

and only mentions:

> 异体字  
> 赊


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