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买卖

mǎi mai

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 買賣

买卖 (mǎi mài) means "buying and selling; business; business transactions". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 买卖 means

1. purchase and sale; transaction
2. shop; store

Other readings

买卖 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• mǎi màito buy and sell

The characters in 买卖

• 买mǎito buy; to purchase
• 卖màito sell; to betray; to spare no effort

Example sentences

• 他一直在做买卖。
  Tā yīzhí zài zuòmǎimài.
  He's always trading.

Words containing 买卖

• 做买卖zuò mǎi màito buy and sell; to do business; to trade
• 投机买卖tóu jī mǎi màito engage in speculative trading
• 一锤子买卖yī chuí zi mǎi màia one-off, short-sighted deal; a one-shot, all-out attempt
• 证券柜台买卖中心Zhèng quàn Guì tái Mǎi mài Zhōng xīnGreTai Securities Market (GTSM)

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