買 (mǎi)
to buy/to purchase
How 買 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 罒 — net
- Traditional
- 買
- Simplified
- 买
Components
- 罒 net
- 貝 shell
Common words using 買
- 買到 mǎidào
- bought
- 買單 mǎidān
- to pay the restaurant bill
- 買賣 mǎimài
- buying and selling; business; business transactions
- 購買 gòumǎi
- to purchase; to buy
- 不買賬 bùmǎizhàng
- not to acknowledge sb as senior or superior; not to believe sth; don't buy it (slang)
- 孟買 mèngmǎi
- Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
- 招兵買馬 zhāobīngmǎimǎ
- to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army; fig. to expand business; to recruit new staff
- 採買 cǎimǎi
- purchase; buy
- 收買 shōumǎi
- to purchase; to bribe
- 牙買加 yámǎijiā
- Jamaica
- 百思買 bǎisīmǎi
- Best Buy (retailer)
- 置買 zhìmǎi
- to purchase; to buy (usu. real estate)
買 in a sentence
我想去買一杯珍珠奶茶。
Wǒ xiǎng qù mǎi yì bēi zhēnzhū nǎichá.
“I want to go buy a cup of bubble tea.”
How common is 買?
買 is the 757th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 84.3% of all running text.
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