买 · mǎi
buy, purchase; bribe, persuade
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
buy, purchase; bribe, persuade
- Mandarin
- mǎi
- Cantonese
- maai5
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+4E70
- Radical
- 乙 · 5
- Strokes
- 6 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
6 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 买
Character connections
Sentence context · 1 matches
我昨天买了一支像你那样的笔。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #401958 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #401955 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
買
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- mǎi
- kCantonese
- maai5
- kDefinition
- buy, purchase; bribe, persuade
- kTotalStrokes
- 6
- kRSUnicode
- 5.5
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+8CB7
- kTGH
- 2013:588
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- mǎi 0759.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- mǎi 241.100
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- mǎi(774)