買

See also 买, and mai

Translingual

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 网 (“net”) + 貝 (“money cowrie”)

Han character

買 (radical 154 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田中月山金 (WLBUC), four-corner 6080₆, composition ⿱罒貝)

1. buy, purchase
2. bribe, persuade

Descendants

• 賣, 䁲, 㵋, 蕒, 鷶, 嘪

References

• KangXi: page 1206, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36708
• Dae Jaweon: page 1669, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3633, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8CB7

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Cantonese

Hanzi

買 (simplified 买, Yale maai5)

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Japanese

Kanji

買 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ばい (bai)
• Kun: かう (kau)

Compounds

• 買収
• 買い物

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Korean

Hanja

買 (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

買 (simplified 买, pinyin mǎi (mai3), Wade-Giles mai³)

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Middle Chinese

Han character

買 (*mɛ̌i)

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Vietnamese

Han character

買 (mãi, mạy, mảy, mấy, mới, mái, mải, với)