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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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Don't confuse with: 貴賣賈 |
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This word has been viewed 23197 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 = 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 businessSee all 50 compounds (CantoDict reports 52 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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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. |
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