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买卖

mǎimài

business deal; trade

HSK 5 · Topic “Money and shopping”
Two people exchanging goods and money
Memory picture

Characters in this word

买 mǎi

Strokes
6
Radical
大 — big, great, vast, high, deep

卖 mài

Strokes
8
Radical
十 — ten, tenth
Made of
十 ten, tenth 买 to buy, to purchase
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Example phrases

  • 这买卖不错。 Zhè mǎimài bùcuò. This deal is pretty good.
  • 他做买卖。 Tā zuò mǎimài. He runs a business.
  • 买卖很公平。 Mǎimài hěn gōngpíng. The trade is very fair.

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