Character Details
| buy (to) | Ascii: 31181 | w82 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 买 | mǎi | mye | 3 | 乛 (bend) + 头 (head) → buy | 买 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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All of the French soldiers have to buy their own beret for their heads. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - This character is a combination of 'net' and 'shell'. It alluded to using a net to collect shells, which you could use to buy things. | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - What did you buy? | - Paul's bought a new car | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 2 - 衤 | yī | cat | clothes (side) | left‑side clothing | 补 被 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 乛 (bend) + 头 (head) → buy | 头 (semantic: head/cover) | 乛 (phonetic) | phonetic weak | ||||||||