in English

mǎi verb HSK 1
to buy / to purchase

Measure word

  • (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use

Stroke order

Le caractère 买 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
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Le caractère 買 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 買, the traditional character: 买 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • “您想买什么?”“我想买条狗。”

    "What would you like to buy?" "I would like to buy a dog."

  • 「我得买点新衣服了,」狄马想。

    "I really need some new clothes," thought Dima.

  • Jack买不起新自行车。

    Jack can't afford to buy a new bicycle.

  • Maria花很多钱买衣服。

    Maria spends a lot of money on clothes.

  • Tom买了辆崭新的车。

    Tom bought a car brand-new.

  • 上个月我买了一台新电脑。

    I bought a new computer last month.

  • 为了买这本书,我去了东京。

    I went to Tokyo to buy this book.

  • 为什么你买了一本那么贵的词典?

    Why did you get such a costly dictionary?

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