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买

mǎi

HSK 1 Character Traditional 買

What 买 means

1. to buy
2. to purchase

Example sentences

• 买单。
  Mǎidān.
  The bill, please.
• 我买了。
  I'm buying.
• 我想买。
  I want to buy.
• 买完整版
  Buy the full version.
• 我去买！
  I'm going shopping!
• 买到啦？
  Did you buy it?

Words starting with 买

• 买卖mǎi maipurchase and sale; transaction; shop; store
• 买房mǎi fángto buy a house
• 买票mǎi piàoto buy tickets; (Taiwan) to buy votes (in an election)
• 买家mǎi jiābuyer; purchaser
• 买好mǎi hǎoto ingratiate oneself
• 买主mǎi zhǔcustomer
• 买进mǎi jìnto purchase; to buy in (goods)
• 买方mǎi fāngbuyer (in contracts)
• 买断mǎi duànto buy out; buyout; severance
• 买通mǎi tōngto bribe
• 买办mǎi bàncomprador
• 买下mǎi xiàto purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
• 买价mǎi jiàbuying price
• 买入mǎi rùto buy (finance)
• 买单mǎi dānto pay the bill; to pick up the tab
• 买回mǎi huíto buy back; to redeem; repurchase
• 买官mǎi guānto buy an official title; to use wealth to acquire office
• 买空mǎi kōngto buy on margin (finance)
• 买不起mǎi bu qǐcannot afford; can't afford buying
• 买东西mǎi dōng xito do one's shopping
• 买关节mǎi guān jiéto offer a bribe
• 买面子mǎi miàn zito allow sb to save face; to defer to
• 买方市场mǎi fāng shì chǎngbuyer's market
• 买路钱mǎi lù qiánmoney extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll…

Words containing 买

• 购买gòu mǎito purchase; to buy
• 收买shōu mǎito purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy off
• 购买力gòu mǎi lìpurchasing power
• 做买卖zuò mǎi màito buy and sell; to do business; to trade
• 孟买Mèng mǎiMumbai (formerly Bombay)
• 牙买加Yá mǎi jiāJamaica
• 采买cǎi mǎito purchase; to buy; to do one's shopping; purchasing agent; buyer
• 置买zhì mǎito purchase; to buy (usu. real estate)
• 代拿买特dài ná mǎi tè(loanword) dynamite
• 批量购买pī liàng gòu mǎito buy in bulk; bulk buying
• 公买公卖gōng mǎi gōng màibuying and selling at fair prices
• 强买强卖qiǎng mǎi qiǎng màito force sb to buy or sell; to trade using coercion
• 投机买卖tóu jī mǎi màito engage in speculative trading
• 照买不误zhào mǎi bù wùto keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
• 邀买人心yāo mǎi rén xīnto buy popular support; to court favor
• 倒买倒卖dǎo mǎi dǎo màito buy and sell at a profit; to speculate
• 招兵买马zhāo bīng mǎi mǎlit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); fig. to raise an army…
• 郑人买履zhèng rén mǎi lǚ(lit.) the person from Zheng 郑; (fig.) disregarding the sensible approach in favor of…
• 贿买huì mǎito bribe; bribery
• 牙买加胡椒Yá mǎi jiā hú jiāoJamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)
• 博士买驴bó shì mǎi lǘ(idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even…
• 偶买嘎ǒu mǎi gā(loanword) oh my God!
• 哦买嘎ò mǎi gā(loanword) oh my God!
• 噢买嘎ō mǎi gā(loanword) oh my God!

Characters that look like 买

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 卖màito sell; to betray; to spare no effort
• 关guānmountain pass; to close; to shut; to turn off; to confine; to lock (sb) up…
• 夹jiāto press from either side; to place in between; to sandwich
• 妥tuǒsuitable; adequate; ready
• 吴Wúsurname Wu; area comprising southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai…
• 芙fúused in 芙蓉

Sounds the same

Read mǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 荬used in 苣荬菜