Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 買

to buy
to purchase

to visit a prostitute
(literary) to buy wine or drinks

buyer; purchaser

to buy a title
to use wealth to acquire office

to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows

to buy a house

customer

variant of 買帳／买帐 (mǎizhàng)

comprador

to pay the restaurant bill

to buy back
to redeem
repurchase

to buy tickets
(Tw) to buy votes (in an election)

to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)

to buy (finance)

buying and selling
business
business transactions
CL:樁／桩 (zhuāng),次 (cì)

to purchase
to buy (usu. real estate)

to buy on margin (finance)

Mumbai (formerly Bombay)

to ingratiate oneself

to purchase
to buy in (goods)

to purchase; to buy

to buy detail
to buy one at a time

to bribe
bribery

to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative)
to accept (a version of events)
to buy it

to purchase; to buy
to bribe; to buy off

buyer (in contracts)

buying price

to bribe

to purchase; to buy
to do one's shopping
purchasing agent; buyer

to buy out
buyout
severance

cannot afford
can't afford buying

purchaser

to buy and sell
to do business
to trade
to deal

to do one's shopping

to offer a bribe

see 買路錢／买路钱 (mǎilùqián)

money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll
(old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession

Jamaica

to allow sb to save face
to defer to

purchasing power

Best Buy (retailer)

qiānjīnnánmǎi

can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)

pīliànggòumǎi

to buy in bulk
bulk buying

zhàomǎibùwù

to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)

bóshì-mǎilü

(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

yāomǎirénxīn

variant of 邀買人心／邀买人心 (yāomǎirénxīn)

qiǎngmǎiqiǎngmài

to force sb to buy or sell
to trade using coercion

mǎiyīsòngyī

buy one, get one free
two for the price of one

dynamite (loanword)

mǎifāngshìchǎng

buyer's market

mǎiguānmàiguān

buying and selling of official positions

mǎikōngmàikōng

to speculate
to play the market
(fig.) to sell hot air
to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator

zhāobīngmǎimǎ

lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom)
fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff

zhèngrénmǎilü

lit. the person from Zheng 鄭／郑 ( Zhèng) 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

yāomǎirénxīn

to buy popular support
to court favor

tóujīmǎimài

to engage in speculative trading

(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018

dǎomǎidǎomài

to buy and sell at a profit
to speculate

mǎixiàozhuīhuān

lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness
abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)

mǎidúhuánzhū

to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside
to show poor judgment (idiom)

gōngmǎigōngmài

buying and selling at fair prices

Yámǎijiāhújiāo

牙买加胡椒

[牙買加胡椒]

Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)

yīchuízimǎimài

一锤子买卖

[一錘子買賣]

a one-off, short-sighted deal
a one-shot, all-out attempt

cùnjīnnánmǎicùnguāngyīn

寸金难买寸光阴

[寸金難買寸光陰]

An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time.
Time is precious.

Zhèngquàn Guìtái Mǎimài Zhōngxīn

证券柜台买卖中心

[證券櫃檯買賣中心]

GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)

jīnqiánbùnéngmǎiláixìngfú

金钱不能买来幸福

[金錢不能買來幸福]

money can't buy happiness

yīcùnguāngyīnyīcùnjīn,cùnjīnnánmǎicùnguāngyīn

一寸光阴一寸金，寸金难买寸光阴

[一寸光陰一寸金，寸金難買寸光陰]

lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (idiom)
fig. time is precious