Pinyin: mǎi

to buy

Example sentence

我想买一杯茶。

Wǒ xiǎng mǎi yī bēi chá.

I want to buy a cup of tea.

What 买 means

(mǎi) is a Chinese word meaning “to buy”. It belongs to the Actions & Verbs topic and appears at HSK 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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