IDENTITY
买mǎito buy
HSK 1Top 260
CORE MEANING
to buy
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to buyHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 乙second radical (yǐ)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱乛头
- the buyer’s head
USAGE
Common words
买东西mǎi dōngxito shop
买单mǎidānto pay the bill
Graded examples
妈妈买了水果。Māma mǎi le shuǐguǒ.HSK1
Mom bought fruit.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
Shells (old money) under a canopy — buying. (Simplified from 買.)
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #260
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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