The kanji 売 fundamentally means "to sell" or "to be sold." It encapsulates the concept of exchanging goods or services for money. It implies the transfer of ownership or possession.

・On-yomi (音読み): バイ (bai) ・Kun-yomi (訓読み): う(る) (u(ru))

⚫︎売（う）る Translation: to sell ⚫︎販売（はんばい） Translation: sale; selling; marketing ⚫︎売り場（うりば） Translation: sales floor; shop; counter

The kanji 売 is a phono-semantic compound (形声文字). The radical on the top is 亠 (dot) and the right side is 丬(wall) and the bottom is 口 (mouth). This means its phonetic component and the origin of this kanji refers to selling something. It originally depicted a person offering goods to a customer.