to compete / competition / match / to surpass / better than / superior to / to excel

= + + + : Socrates (s) and the crab (贝) are competing in a competition (赛) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The competition is about stacking wells (井) as high as possible. After time's up, Socrates is the clear winner. He climbs the winner's pedestal (丌) and receives a honorary PhD and thus a graduation cap (宀).

赛 character breakdown

surname Ji

= + 丿 + : Joan of Arc (ji) is putting a flute (一), a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨) on a pedestal (丌) in front of the space station (Ø1) as an offering for the gods.
"pedestal" component in Chinese characters

= + 丿 + : Joan of Arc (ji) is putting a flute (一), a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨) on a pedestal (丌) in front of the space station (Ø1) as an offering for the gods.
archaic variant of 其[qi2]
a well / CL:口[kou3] / neat / orderly

= + 丿 + : Joan of Arc (ji) is digging a well (井) inside the engine ((e)ng3). At first she was doing it by hand, but then she hooked up a capacitor (二) to a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨), which dig for her using the electrical energy.
"roof" radical (Kangxi radical 40), occurring in 家, 定, 安 etc, referred to as 寶蓋|宝盖[bao3 gai4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character look like a graduation cap (宀).

Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to cook in the anthill's kitchen (an2) but she's afraid of the ants. That's why she builds a bunker: she uses a saucepan lid (冖) as the base, constructs pillars out of petals (丶) and uses a graduation cap (宀) as the roof.
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

Characters with 赛 as component

赛 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 赛

(sports) league / league tournament
(sports) semifinal or quarterfinal / to compete in a semifinal (or a quarterfinal)
Celeron (an Intel chip)
lyocell (textiles) (loanword)
England premier soccer league
time trial (e.g. in cycle race) / timed race / competition against the clock
time trial (e.g. in cycle race) / timed race / competition against the clock
Chinese chess tournament
qualifying round (in sports)
"Mr Science", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动[Wu3 si4 Yun4 dong4] / abbr. for 賽因斯|赛因斯[sai4 yin1 si1] / see also 德先生[De2 xian1 sheng5]
Seres, Chinese electric vehicle brand
Saisiyat or Saisiat, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Seediq, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan

Sentences with 赛

赛 currently does not appear in any sentence.