買 (maai5 | mai3) : buy; purchase

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買

maai5

mai3

[1] buy; purchase | [antonym] 賣
[2] bribe; buy over; buy off

Stroke count: 12

Level: 1

Radical: (#154)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

買 / 买

Don't confuse with:
貴賣賈

This word has been viewed 24988 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 13th Nov 2014 10:15

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買賣 maai5 maai6 mai3 mai4 = business; trade

買嘢 maai5 je5 mai3 ye3 = shopping 粵

買單 maai5*4 daan1 mai3 dan1 = call for the bill (US/AU: check) at restaurants 國

收買 sau1 maai5 shou1 mai3 = to purchase; to bribe

再買 zoi3 maai5 = repurchase

買家 maai5 gaa1 mai3 jia1 = 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
See all 50 compounds (CantoDict reports 52 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

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'.]]

記得買奶吧。國
Remember to buy milk.

如果我唔係太攰，我會去買嘢。粵
If I'm not too tired, I will go shopping.

聖誕之前剩番廿三日買嘢咋粵
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

聖誕節之前只剩下二十三天買禮物了！國
There are only 23 shopping days left until Christmas.

我們今年的聖誕樹要買真的還是人造的？國
Shall we get a real Christmas tree or an artificial one?

我鍾意喺互聯網買嘢粵
I like to buy stuff on the internet. I like to shop online/on the internet.

我都上網買禮物國
I buy gifts on the Internet.

平嘢我唔會買! 粵
I don’t buy inferior stuff.

買咗件蛋糕兩份食粵
I bought a piece of cake for both of us to share

一蚊一隻雞好抵買。粵
One dollar for a chicken is so worth buying it.

阿媽去咗超級市場買嘢。粵
Mum has gone shopping in a supermarket.

哎吔，我唔記得咗買橙返嚟添！粵
Oh, I have forgotten to buy some oranges.

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]

買滿$30可以用優惠價$5換購汽水一支
Spend over $30, can get a bottle of soft drink for $5

佢連車都買唔起, 何況係買屋粵
He can't afford a car, let alone a house.

你走到冇雷公咁遠買貨，點為得過呀粵
It is not worth buying goods from such a faraway place.

三萬蚊買起佢，易如反掌粵
Thirty thousand dollars to get someone to kill him, its easy.

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.

而家唔好買住，遲啲啲嘢就會喊冷㗎喇。粵
Do not buy now; they will soon be slashing the prices.

一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰
Time is as valuable as gold. However, one cannot buy time with gold.

正值減價，你多買幾件衣服吧。國
We're right in the midst of a sale, you should buy a few more shirts.

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.]

佢買嘢攋低咗把遮。粵
He has left his umbrella behind while shopping.

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. ]

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