What 买 means
买 means “buy.” Use it for paid purchases of goods, tickets, or services.
Earlier forms appear across the oracle-bone, bronze, and seal-script stages. Oracle-bone inscriptions were carved on bone or shell; seal script is a later formal script. One disputed explanation reads the top of traditional 買 as a net (网) and the bottom 貝 as a cowrie shell, once used as money.
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2In Mandarin, pay the restaurant bill; associated with Cantonese 埋单.
Buying and selling; trade.
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- mai · mǎi · buy · purchase · 买单 · 买卖
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\4E70Pinyin input
To type 买 with pinyin, enter mai and choose 买 from the candidates. For Traditional Chinese output, choose 買 if your input method offers that option.
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content: "\4E70";
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%E4%B9%B0
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