买 買
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
Stroke order
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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.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 12 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“您想买什么？”“我想买条狗。”
"What would you like to buy?" "I would like to buy a dog."
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「我得买点新衣服了，」狄马想。
"I really need some new clothes," thought Dima.
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Jack买不起新自行车。
Jack can't afford to buy a new bicycle.
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Maria花很多钱买衣服。
Maria spends a lot of money on clothes.
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Tom买了辆崭新的车。
Tom bought a car brand-new.
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上个月我买了一台新电脑。
I bought a new computer last month.
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为了买这本书，我去了东京。
I went to Tokyo to buy this book.
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为什么你买了一本那么贵的词典？
Why did you get such a costly dictionary?