Character Details
| bill | Ascii: — | w83 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 买单 | mǎidān | mye-dan | 3+1 | Not Yet Developed | 买单 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
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| Examples | |||||||||||
| - Waiter, could I get the bill, please? | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; verb‑object | 买 (亠 cover radical + hand underneath) + 单 (⺊ small mark + 甲 shell/ledger) | ||||||||||
| Reaching under a shop canopy (买) to take the ledger list (单) — paying the bill. | |||||||||||