買

See also: 买 and 員

Translingual

Han character

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

Descendants

• 賣, 䁲, 㵋, 蕒, 鷶, 嘪

References

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

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Chinese

trad.		買
simp.		买

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 買
Shang	Spring and Autumn
Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions

Characters in the same phonetic series (買) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
買	*mreːʔ
蕒	*mreːʔ
嘪	*mreːʔ
鷶	*mreːʔ
賣	*mreːs

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

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 買

1. to buy; to purchase

   我買了輛新車。／我买了辆新车。  ―  Wǒ mǎi le liàng xīn chē.  ―  I bought a new car.

2. to bribe
3. to persuade
4. a surname

Related terms

• 賣／卖 (mài, “to sell”)

Further reading

• “Entry #9063”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

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Japanese

Kanji

買

(Second grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to buy

Readings

• Go-on: め (me)
• Kan-on: ばい (bai, Jōyō)
• Kun: かう (kau, 買う, Jōyō)^{←かふ (kafu, 買ふ, historical)}

Compounds

• 買収(ばいしゅう) (baishū)
• 買(か)い物(もの) (kaimono)

Antonyms

• 売

Derived terms

• 買(か)う (kau)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. buy, purchase
2. bribe, persuade

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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