Chinese Character 买 Meanings and components.

Form

买

Meaning

买 meaning[3] in English

To Buy.

To Purchase.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 买 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are variant of 乙[zhe2] (乛) , and head (头)

Its radical[1] is: 乙 (yi3) which means: Second Of The Ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[Shi2 Tian1 Gan1], Second In Order, Letter 'B' Or Roman 'Ii' In List 'A, B, C', Or 'I, Ii, Iii' Etc, Second Party (In Legal Contract, Usually 乙方[Yi3 Fang1], As Opposed To 甲方[Jia3 Fang1]), Ethyl, Bent, Winding, Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 5), Ancient Chinese Compass Point: 105°, .乙yi3second of …

In cangjie it is written with NYK

How to write 买

To write买mai3to buy you should write a combination of 乛ya5variant of … , 头tou2head arranged in a 吕 shape:

乛 + 头 = 买

买 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 买 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 买, looks as follow:

买
Pinyin:mai3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: To Buy . To Purchase
乛
Pinyin:ya5
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 乙[Zhe2]
头
Pinyin:tou2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Head . Hair Style . The Top . End . Beginning Or End . A Stub . Remnant . Chief . Boss . Side . Aspect . First . Leading . Classifier For Pigs Or Livestock . Cl:個|个[Ge4]
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother
冫
Pinyin:bing1
Meaning[3]: 'Ice' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 15), Occurring In 冰[Bing1], 次[Ci4] Etc, Known As 兩點水|两点水[Liang3 Dian3 Shui3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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