Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- mǎi
English
- buy, purchase
- to buy
- to buy; to purchase; to hire
- bribe, persuade
- to purchase
- (of prices) to cost
- to bet; to place a bet; to gamble (money)
粵語
- 畀、付出一樣嘢交換得到對方嘅錢、商品、財產、權利或者服務，形容「得到」方面嘅行動；同「賣」相對
- 價值；用某個金額先足以買到某樣嘢
- （賭博）落注
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Variants
Words containing 買
- 買賣maai5 maai6
to buy and sell
- 購買gau3 maai5
to purchase; to buy
- 買大maai5 daai6
to bet on 'big' or 'over' in the common table game in casino called 'over-under or O
- 高買gou1 maai5
shoplifting
- 買起maai5 hei2
to take-over or purchase something with money; to kill someone by hiring an assassin
- 買水maai5 seoi2
'buying water', a ceremony carried out by the eldest son for a dead parent
- 買手maai5 sau2
buyer
- 買下maai5 haa6
to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
- 收買sau1 maai5
to purchase; to buy
- 買家maai5 gaa1
buyer; purchaser
- 買單maai5 daan1
to pay the bill; to pick up the tab
- 買路錢maai5 lou6 cin4
money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll
- 買樓maai5 lau2
to buy a property [written and colloquial]
- 買入maai5 jap6
to buy (finance)
- 買鐘maai5 zung1
to pay to take a night club hostess out of a nightclub [colloquial]
- 孟買maang6 maai5
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
- 買主maai5 zyu2
customer
- 買辦maai5 baan2
comprador
- 買通maai5 tung1
to bribe
- 買醉maai5 zeoi3
to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows
- 買兇maai5 hung1
to hire a hitman
- 抵買dai2 maai5
good value for money
- 牙買加ngaa4 maai5 gaa1
Jamaica
- 買嘢maai5 je5
shopping; to buy stuff