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买
Meaning
- to buy
- to purchase
Example sentence
我买了单。
I paid the bill.
The character 买
买 and 卖 differ by one stroke on top and by one tone: mǎi is to buy, mài is to sell. It is the pair that makes the third tone worth getting right. 买东西 is to go shopping.