買

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See also 买, and mai

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[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Descendants

[edit] 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

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

買 (simplified 买, Yale maai5)

[edit] Goguryeo

[edit] Noun

買 (mae)

  1. water

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

買 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

[edit] Readings

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

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

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Hanzi

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

[edit] Middle Chinese

[edit] Han character

買 (*mɛ̌i)

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

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

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