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Information of 買

Pinyinmǎi

Radical

貝

Strokes

12 strokes

Usage

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Definition

buy

買 1. To exchange money for things; opposite of "sell." - Example phrases: 買賣 (buy and sell), 買辦 (1. person procuring goods; 2. intermediary or agent running a business in the domestic market for foreign capitalists), 買名 (to buy a reputation), 買好 (to buy something good), 買笑 (old term referring to seeking pleasure in a brothel), 買主 (buyer), 買方 (buyer), 買春 (to buy wine, commonly used in the Tang Dynasty with many wine names containing "spring"). 2. To bring upon oneself. - Example phrase: 買禍 (to bring disaster upon oneself). 3. A surname. Verb: To purchase goods with money. - Example phrases: 買田 (buy land), 買書 (buy books), 買空賣空 (buying and short selling). - Example from Tang poet Bai Juyi: "Merchants prioritize profit over separation; last month I went to buy tea at Fuliang." - Example from Tang poet Liu Hun: "Recently, what can be done about peonies, hundreds or thousands of coins buy a single flower." Verb: To seek or to obtain. - Example from "History of the Southern Dynasties": "He sighed, saying: 'To glorify the shape of virtue is to express the feelings of the earth; am I really someone who buys fame to seek an official position?'" - Example from Song poet Su Shi: "Competing to acquire new favorites, each has its own ideas; this year the fight for quality fills the official tea."

Input Method for 買

Pinyinmai3

Wubi

nudu

Cangjie

nyk

Zhengma

xtgd

Four Corner

17804

Unicode

U+8cb7

Same Pronunciation Characters

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Same Radical Characters

貝貞負財貢貧貨販貪貫責貯貲貳貴貶買貸費貼貽貿賀賁賂賃賄賅資賈賊賏賑