買

See also: 买 and 員
買 U+8CB7, 買
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CB7
← 貶
[U+8CB6] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 貸 →
[U+8CB8]

Translingual

Han character

買 (radical 154, 貝+5, 12 strokes, cangjie input 田中月山金 (WLBUC), four-corner 60806, composition ⿱罒貝)

Descendants

References
  • KangXi: page 1206, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36708
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1669, character 9
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3633, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+8CB7

Chinese
trad. 買
simp. 买

Glyph origin
Historical forms of the character 買
Shang Spring and Autumn
Bronze inscriptions Bronze inscriptions
Characters in the same phonetic series (買) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
買 *mreːʔ
蕒 *mreːʔ
嘪 *mreːʔ
鷶 *mreːʔ
賣 *mreːs

Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 网 (“net”) + 貝 (“money cowrie”).

Pronunciation
Note: mái - literary, bé/bóe - vernacular.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 買
Mandarin Beijing /mai²¹⁴/
Harbin /mai²¹³/
Tianjin /mai¹³/
Jinan /mɛ⁵⁵/
Qingdao /mɛ⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /mai⁵³/
Xi'an /mai⁵³/
Xining /mɛ⁵³/
Yinchuan /mɛ⁵³/
Lanzhou /mɛ⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /mai⁵¹/
Wuhan /mai⁴²/
Chengdu /mai⁵³/
Guiyang /mai⁴²/
Kunming /mæ⁵³/
Nanjing /mae²¹²/
Hefei /me̞²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /mai⁵³/
Pingyao /mæ⁵³/
Hohhot /mɛ⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /ma²³/
Suzhou /mɑ³¹/
Hangzhou /me̞⁵³/
Wenzhou /ma³⁵/
Hui Shexian /ma³⁵/
Tunxi /ma²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /mai⁴¹/
Xiangtan /mai⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /mai²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /mai⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /mɑi²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mai²³/
Nanning /mai²⁴/
Hong Kong /mai¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /mai⁵³/
/bue⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /mɛ³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /mai²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /boi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /mai²¹³/ ～办
/vɔi²¹³/
Rime
Character 買
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 佳 (31)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫蟹切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠɛX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚæX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mæiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /maɨjX/
Li
Rong		 /mɛX/
Wang
Li		 /maiX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /maiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mǎi
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 買
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mǎi
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ meaX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*mˁrajʔ/
English buy

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 買
Reading # 1/1
No. 8727
Phonetic
component		 買
Rime
group		 支
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 買
Old
Chinese		 /*mreːʔ/

Definitions

買

  1. to buy; to purchase
    我買了輛新車。 / 我买了辆新车。  ―  Wǒ mǎi le liàng xīn chē.  ―  I bought a new car.
  2. to bribe
  3. to persuade
  4. A surname​.
  • 賣／卖 (mài, “to sell”)

Compounds
Derived terms from 買

Further reading

Japanese

Kanji
買

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to buy

Readings

Compounds

Antonyms

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

買 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune–Reischauer mae, Yale may)

  1. buy, purchase
  2. bribe, persuade

Vietnamese

Han character

買 (mãi, mạy, mảy, mấy, mới, mái, mải, với)

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