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買
買
See also: 买
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
| 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
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˇ
- Wade-Giles: mai3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mae
- IPA (key): /maɪ̯²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: maai5
- Yale: máaih
- Cantonese Pinyin: maai5
- IPA (key): /mɑːi̯¹³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mâi
- Hakka Romanization System: mai´
- Hagfa Pinyim: mai1
- IPA: /ma̯i²⁴/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mái / bé / bóe
- Tâi-lô: mái / bé / bué
- Phofsit Daibuun: mae, bea, boea
- IPA (Xiamen): /maɪ⁵³/, /be⁵³/, /bue⁵³/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /maɪ⁵⁵⁴/, /be⁵⁵⁴/, /bue⁵⁵⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /maɪ⁵³/, /be⁵³/, /bue⁵³/
- IPA (Taipei): /maɪ⁵³/, /be⁵³/, /bue⁵³/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /maɪ⁴¹/, /be⁴¹/, /bue⁴¹/
- Note: mái - literary, bé/bóe - vernacular.
- (Teochew)
- Peng'im: bhoi2
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bói
- IPA (key): /boi⁵²/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: ma (T3)
- IPA (key): /mᴀ²³/
- (Shanghainese)
- 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 |
| 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
Derived terms
Compounds
Derived terms from 買
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Korean
Hanja
買 • (mae) (hangeul 매, revised mae, McCune-Reischauer mae, Yale may)
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