买 (mǎi): meaning and stroke order
买 (mǎi) means to buy, to purchase.
买
- Simplified
- 买
- Traditional
- 買
- Pinyin
- mǎi
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Stroke order of 买
买
- mǎi to buy; to purchase
- 6 strokes
- Traditional form: 買
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Meaning of 买
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mǎi
Traditional 買
- to buy
- to purchase
Radical and structure
- 买
- Radical 乙 (Kangxi radical 5) · 6 strokes · 乛 on top, 头 below
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Words with 买
- 买房 mǎi fáng to buy a house
买 in our stories
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马丽和妈妈去买苹果。
Mǎ Lì hé māma qù mǎi píngguǒ
Ma Li and her mum go to buy apples.
From the story Buying apples HSK 1
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杰克想买一本中文书，可是他不知道书店在哪儿。
Jiékè xiǎng mǎi yì běn Zhōngwén shū kěshì tā bù zhīdao shūdiàn zài nǎr
Jack wants to buy a Chinese book, but he doesn't know where the bookshop is.
From the story How do I get to the bookshop? HSK 2
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钱多多搬了新家，想在网上买一个便宜又好看的沙发。
Qián Duōduō bān le xīn jiā xiǎng zài wǎngshang mǎi yí gè piányi yòu hǎokàn de shāfā
Qian Duoduo had moved into a new flat and wanted to buy a cheap, good-looking sofa online.
From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
Where you learn it
买 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 买
- Buying apples HSK 1
- How do I get to the bookshop? HSK 2
- The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4
- Fifty sheets of paper HSK 5
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- The market hearing HSK 7–9 · Level 8
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).