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The kanji 買: meaning, readings and stroke order
買
- Meaning
- buy
- On reading
- バイ bai
- Kun reading
- か（う） kau
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 貝 shell
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- mua (mãi)
- Japanese
- かう。
- Korean
- 사다 (매)
- Chinese
- 买
Readings, words and example sentences
バイ bai · on reading · less common
売買
buying and selling
むかしは 市場で 魚や 米の 売買を して いました。
Long ago, people bought and sold fish and rice at the market.
か（う） kau · kun reading
買う
buy
店で 新しい ノートを 買います。
I buy a new notebook at the store.
Practise writing 買 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 買 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 2 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.