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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *买* | 买* | *买
to buy / to purchase
HSK 1
to buy and sell
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *市* | 市* | *市
market / city / municipality (administrative unit) / (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
HSK 2
bar (place to buy drinks) / CL:
HSK 4
to purchase; to buy
HSK 4
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *购* | 购* | *购
to buy / to purchase
HSK 7-9
cannot afford / can't afford buying
HSK 7-9
(neologism, attested by 2017) (coll.) chill about everything (typically used to describe young people who don't buy into aspirational society)
to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)
to begin (with ...) (typically used in a structure such as 從|从 + {noun} + 入手: "to begin with {noun}; to take {noun} as one's starting point") / to receive; to obtain; to buy
HSK 7-9
group buying / collective buying / buying by a group of individuals who negotiate a discount for the group
to buy (finance)
regimental command / head of a delegation / group buy organizer; group-buying coordinator
HSK 5
to act with urgency / to buy time
to buy groceries
An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.
(coll.) shill; tout; phony customer who pretends to buys things so as to lure real customers
to buy again
buy one, get one free / two for the price of one
to buy (on behalf of sb)
one's share of expenses (e.g. when buying a gift collectively) / cash gift
to move / to shift / to exchange / to buy and sell / peddling
to go on a shopping spree; to buy in bulk
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *置* | 置* | *置
to install / to place / to put / to buy
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *淘* | 淘* | *淘
to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities) / to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste) / (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods) / (dialect) naughty; mischievous
HSK 7-9
to panic buy / to loot
to buy votes (in an election)
to purchase / to buy in (goods)
to buy a house
financial leverage / leveraging (i.e. buying shares on borrowed funds)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扯* | 扯* | *扯
to pull / to tear / (of cloth, thread etc) to buy / to chat / to gossip / (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous / hokey
HSK 7-9
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to buy out / buyout / severance
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
used in expressions of the form + {verb} + 不誤|不误, in which means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误, to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)
to purchase; to buy / to bribe; to buy off
HSK 7-9
to visit a prostitute / (literary) to buy wine or drinks
to buy an official title; to use wealth to acquire office
to ask to buy / to bid for purchase
to buy on a considerable scale / to purchase / to procure / to stock up
to buy a house on a mortgage / house mortgage
to move (things around) / to buy and sell at a profit (derog.)
buying and selling of official positions
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
WeChat's "buy now, pay later" service
Best Buy (retailer)
buying and selling at fair prices
to buy liquor
a mortgage (loanword via Cantonese) / to buy property on a mortgage
to stir-fry rapidly using a high flame / to conduct a media blitz / to manipulate a stock market through large-scale buying and selling
(coll.) to ride in sb else's car to save money / to ride on a train or bus without buying a ticket (fare-dodging)
to select and purchase / to buy
to buy / to acquire / to add to one's possessions
to invest in stock / to buy shares
to buy back / to redeem / repurchase
a fraudulent purchase / to buy up sth illegally
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *贩* | 贩* | *贩
to deal in / to buy and sell / to trade in / to retail / to peddle
to limit the amount a customer can buy
to buy frenetically / to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc)
lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness / abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)
buyback / repurchase / to buy back
to buy in bulk / bulk buying
to purchase; to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent; buyer
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *沽* | 沽* | *沽
to buy / to sell
(Tw) to buy off influential people (in an election, a call for tenders etc)
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it
to offer credit / credit transaction / to buy or sell on account
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
to execute a lightning raid / (investment) to buy, then quickly sell / (tourism) to visit a destination for only a short stay
to seek to purchase; to be looking to buy (sth)
to buy real estate
to buy the whole lot / to take everything remaining
to buy wholesale
(coll.) (neologism c. 2017, a play on 伏地魔) woman who devotes herself to supporting her little brother (assisting him with his studies, giving money to help him buy a house etc)
to purchase / to buy (usu. real estate)
to buy or sell on credit / outstanding account / to have an outstanding account
to buy detail / to buy one at a time
to atone for one's crime / to buy freedom from punishment / redemption / atonement
to buy a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets / to sell a business (shop, restaurant etc) and all its assets
(neologism, attested by 2021) underachieving students tend to buy lots of stationery; (fig.) all the gear and no idea
to buy soy sauce / it's none of my business ("I’m just here to buy some soy sauce")
buying direct from your company at preferential prices / (gaming) in-app purchase
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *贳* | 贳* | *贳
to borrow / to buy on credit / to rent out
lit. the person from Zheng 鄭|郑 who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / fig. disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea
to sell an item only as part of a bundle (thereby forcing consumers to buy goods they do not want); to sell on a tie-in basis
buying price
to buy a struggling business and keep it going; to take over a business
to bid competitively / to compete to buy (at auction)
to buy on margin (finance)
person who joins with others to reduce costs (carpooling, group buying, sharing an apartment etc)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *籴* | 籴* | *籴
to buy up (grain)
to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc / to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater
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  *贾* | 贾* | *贾
merchant / to buy
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to respond to the market / to buy or sell according to market conditions
to buy on credit / to delay payment
to buy (sth extra); to make an additional purchase
(idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point
fig. people who cannot afford to buy their own house

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