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maai5
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[1] buy; purchase | [antonym] 賣 [2] bribe; buy over; buy off Stroke count: 12
Level: 1
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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買 / 买 | ||
Don't confuse with: 貴賣賈 |
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買賣 maai5 maai6 = business; trade 買嘢 maai5 je5 = shopping 粵 買單 maai5*4 daan1 = call for the bill (US/AU: check) at restaurants 國 收買 sau1 maai5 = to purchase; to bribe 再買 zoi3 maai5 = repurchase 買家 maai5 gaa1 = buyer, client 買樓 maai5 lau4*2 = buy a property units 粵 抵買 dai2 maai5 = worth buying 粵 買一送一 maai5 jat1 sung3 jat1 = buy one get one free 股票買賣 gu2 piu3 maai5 maai6 = stockjobbing, the stock business 購買 kau3 maai5 = to purchase 購買力 kau3 maai5 lik6 = purchasing power; buying power 招兵買馬 ziu1 bing1 maai5 maa5 = enlarge an army; recruit followers 買手 maai5 sau2 = buyer 買起 maai5 hei2 = buy; to kill sb by hiring a killer; a contract killing 粵 買路錢 maai5 lou6 cin4 = pay for protection on journey from robber gangs 收買佬 sau1 maai5 lou2 = scrap merchant 高買 gou1 maai5 = to shoplift while pretending to buy 買水 maai5 seoi2 = "buying water", a ceremony carried out by the eldest son for a dead parent 買保險 maai5 bou2 him2 = to insure (against) 買燕梳 maai5 jin3 so1 = to insure onself (against) 粵 買成 maai5 seng4 = to be able to buy successfully 不買賬 bat1 maai5 zoeng3 = not buy it; not go for it 國 買賣人 maai5 maai6 jan4 = merchant (used chiefly in Taiwan) 買好 maai5 hou2 = to ingratiate oneself 買票 maai5 piu3 = to buy tickets; vote-buying 買方 maai5 fong1 = buyer (in contracts) 買東西 maai5 dung1 sai1 = to go shopping (lit., "buy things") 採買 coi2 maai5 = purchase; buy 買滿 maai5 mun5 = spend over 粵 買方市場 maai5 fong1 si5 coeng4 = buyer's market (common formation) 擔幡買水 daam1 faan1 maai5 seoi2 = ceremony carried out by the eldest son for a dead parent ("buying water") 隔山買牛 gaak3 saan1 maai5 ngau4 = buy sth without seeing it 買家市場 maai5 gaa1 si5 coeng4 = buyer's market (common formation) 買入 maai5 jap6 = to buy in 買豬肉搭頭骨 maai5 zui1 juk6 daap3 tau4 gwat1 = buying roasted pork and having some bone attached for free 粵 買盤 maai5 pun4*2 = a buy order (on the stock exchange) 買餸 maai5 sung3 = to buy dishes of food 粵 準買家 zeon2 maai5 gaa1 = prospective buyer 假買賣 gaa2 maai5 maai6 = sham sale and purchase 貼錢買難受 tip3 cin4*2 maai5 naan4 sau6 = to feel silly and regreful of buying something that is not worth it 粵 齋睇唔買 zaai1 tai2 m4 maai5 = just looking not buying 粵 收買人命 sau1 maai5 jan4 meng6 = to kill sb. 粵 買少見少 maai5 siu2 gin3 siu2 = seldomly seen; rare 粵 買飛 maai5 fei1 = purchase a ticket 粵 買兇 maai5 hung1 = hire a killer 牙買加 ngaa4 maai5 gaa1 = Jamaica 孟買 maang6 maai5 = Bombay, Mumbai 買入匯率 maai5 jap6 wui6 leot6*2 = buying rate 高買低賣 gou1 maai5 dai1 maai6 = "high buy low sell" strategy 低買高賣 dai1 maai5 gou1 maai6 = "buy low sell high" strategy (stock exchange) 千金難買早知道 cin1 gam1 naan4 maai5 zou2 zi1 dou6*3 = if only I would have known earlier 粵 |
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Showing all 31 examples containing 買
我買咗一梳蕉 粵
I bought a hand of bananas. [Lit. I buy already one hand bananas. ['Hand' is another term for 'bunch'.]]
唔好買呢啲有防腐劑嘅食物! 粵
Don't buy food with preservatives! [Lit. Don't buy these have preservatives (of) food]
隨口講佢著衫獨沽一味,點知佢借啲意隔日就買反一櫃嘅新衫 粵
I was merely commenting she's always wearing the same clothes; little did I know that she would use it as an opportunity to buy herself a whole cupboard of new clothes the next day.
請你幫我買幾份報紙,南華、星島、明報各一份。
Please buy some newspapers for me, South China (Morning Post), Sing Tao (Daily) and Ming Pao (Daily), one each.
我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰件衫去乾洗 粵
I took the shirt I bought last week to be dry-cleaned. [Lit. I took-already last-week bought that (counter) shirt go dry-clean]
我攞咗上個禮拜買嗰啲衫去乾洗 粵
I took the clothes I bought last week to be dry-cleaned. [Lit. I took-already last-week bought those shirts go dry-clean]
我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺廣城買嗰件衫去洗 粵
I took the shirt I bought two weeks ago at the shopping mall to be cleaned. [Lit. I took two weeks ago at shopping mall buy that shirt go clean]
兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫,我攞咗佢去熨。 粵
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed. [Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]
我睇都係買屋比較揸拿,好過投資喺啲小生意上 粵
I am of the view that buying property has more assurance, better than investing in small businesses.
我攞咗兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買嗰件衫去熨 粵
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed. [[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ]
唔買走寶。 粵
If you don't buy it, you'll miss out on this best buy. [This four-character sentence is compressed from a longer one "如果你唔買,你就走寶。" Here, the correlative conjunctions (如果/就) and the subject (你) are omitted. ] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |