买 (mǎi) means Buy (business). Below are 24 of the 40 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
From the graded readers
我想 买 一件衣服。
wǒ xiǎng mǎi yíjiàn yīfu.
I wanted to buy a piece of clothing.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going Shopping
买 完以后，我去付钱。
mǎi wán yǐhòu, wǒ qù fù qián.
After I'd got everything I went to pay.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
最后我们 买 了这件衣服，二百块。
zuìhòu wǒmen mǎile zhèijiàn yīfu, èrbǎi kuài.
In the end we bought it for two hundred yuan.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going Shopping
上个星期，我在网上 买 了一件大衣。
shànggexīngqī, wǒ zài wǎngshàng mǎile yíjiàn dà yī / yì.
Last week I bought a coat online.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Shopping Online
星期天我们一起去 买 东西，一起吃饭。
xīngqītīan wǒmen yìqǐ qù mǎi dōngxī, yìqǐ chīfàn.
On Sundays we go shopping and eat together.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Friend Lili
星期六下午，妈妈让我去超市 买 东西。
xīngqīliù xiàwǔ, māma ràng wǒ qù chāo shì mǎi dōngxī.
On Saturday afternoon mum asked me to go to the supermarket.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
妈妈笑了：“没关系，明天再 买 吧。”
māma xiào le / liǎo / liào:" méiguānxi, míngtiān zài mǎi bā."
Mum laughed: "Never mind, buy it tomorrow."
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
我还 买 了几张照片，把它们放在了墙上。
wǒ hái / huán mǎile jǐ / jī zhāng zhàopiàn, bǎ tāmen fàng zài le / liǎo / liào qiáng shàng.
I also bought a few photos and put them on the wall.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · My New Room
From the travel phrasebook
今天我来 买 单。
Jīntiān wǒ lái mǎidān.
Let me pay tonight.
Travel phrasebook · Business dining and toasting
From the grammar library
他 买 了两本书。
Tā mǎi le liǎng běn shū.
He bought two books.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · Measure words — the top 25
我 买 了三本书。
Wǒ mǎi le sān běn shū.
I bought three books.
Grammar library · HSK 2 · 了 — completed action and change of state
我 买 的书很有意思。
Wǒ mǎi de shū hěn yǒu yìsi.
The book I bought is interesting.
Grammar library · HSK 1 · 的 for possession and description
这件衣服是在网上 买 的。
Zhè jiàn yīfu shì zài wǎng shàng mǎi de.
I bought this online.
Grammar library · HSK 4 · 是…的 — emphasising the details
买 appears in 40 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Questions about 买
How is 买 used in a sentence?
This page shows 40 sentences using 买 (mǎi, "Buy (business)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 买 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 买 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 买 an HSK word?
Yes — 买 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 买?
The dictionary page for 买 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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