to buy / to purchase

= + : Mahatma Gandhi visits the airplane. He sees a neat skull and a nice sickle, and he asks for the price, because he wants to buy them both.

買 character breakdown

net (Kangxi radical 122)

This one just looks like a fishing net. Willy walrus (w) is trying to fish frozen fish from the freezer with a net (罒) inside the anglepod's living room (ang3).
surname Bei
cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.

Characters with 買 as component

to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.
see 苣蕒菜|苣荬菜[ju4 mai3 cai4]

Words with 買

to purchase / to bribe
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army / fig. to expand business / to recruit new staff
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
to purchase / to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent / buyer
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.
buying and selling on speculation
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
Jamaican pepper / all-spice (Pimenta dioica)
Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)
lit. An interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time. (idiom) / fig. Time is precious and must be treasured.
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
to buy and sell / to do business / to trade / to deal
buying and selling at fair prices
can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
lit. the scholar buys a donkey (idiom); fig. long-winded verbiage that never gets to the point / idiom mocking scholastic pomposity

Sentences with 買

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