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買 kanji
buy
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
バイ
Kun readings
かう
Words with 買
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2売買Populartrade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing
- N1購買Popularprocurement; purchase; buying; school store; co-op; school canteen; tuck shop
- —買収Popularacquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; purchase; bribery; buying off; corruption
- —購買力Popularbuying power; purchasing power
- —故買buying stolen goods; receiving
- —不買not buying
- —買春buying sex; hiring a prostitute
- —買弁intermediary in China conducting business with foreign countries; comprador; compradore; person working for a foreign company to the detriment of their own country
- —試買trial purchase
- —売買高sales amount; sales volume
- —故買者person who buys stolen goods; dealer in stolen goods; receiver; fence
- —購買者buyer
- —購買部school store; co-op; purchasing department
- —先買権right of first refusal; (right of) preemption; purchase option
- —買弁的comprador-like; being an underling to a foreign company to the detriment of one's own country
- —故買屋receiver's shop; pawnshop which knowingly buys stolen goods
- —競売買buying and selling at auction; auction
- —購買層purchasers; customer base; market (for a product)
- —密売買illicit traffic; contraband
- —競争売買auction