买 mǎi▶ comprar

Stroke order

买 is written in 6 strokes.

• 买

Senses

1. to buy
2. to purchase

Example sentences

• 我想买一本书。Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yī běn shū.I want to buy a book.
• 她在商店买水果。Tā zài shāngdiàn mǎi shuǐguǒ.She buys fruit at the shop.

Related words

• 做hacer
• 开abrir

买 is pronounced mǎi and means “comprar”. HSK 1 places it in the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, the standardised measure of Chinese proficiency. There is a real difference between having seen 买 and being able to use it, and cramming a list flatters the first while doing little for the second. LexiTrail shows you the word again at the point your recall of it is about to lapse.