Buy in Chinese (Mandarin): 买 (mǎi)
买
mǎi
buy
- Simplified
- 买
- Traditional
- 買
- Pinyin
- mǎi
- Typed as
- mai
Use it in a sentence
妈妈去买菜。
媽媽去買菜。
Mom goes to buy vegetables.
The characters in 买
买 / 買
To buy.
6 strokes
Third tone. Its opposite is 卖 (mài), to sell, which looks almost the same with 十 on top.
More examples with 买
我想买一个气球。
我想買一個氣球。
Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yí gè qìqiú.
I want to buy a balloon.
爸爸买了一本书。
爸爸買了一本書。
Bàba mǎi le yì běn shū.
Dad bought a book.
How to write 买 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
买 6 strokes
In Traditional characters:
買 12 strokes
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