买

to buy / to purchase

variant of 乙[zhe2]

head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

suffix for nouns

Character component without intrinsic meaning

buying and selling / business / business transactions / CL:樁|桩[zhuang1],次[ci4]

buyer; purchaser

customer

cannot afford / can't afford buying

to buy (finance)

buying price

to buy back / to redeem / repurchase

to ingratiate oneself

to buy a title / to use wealth to acquire office

buying and selling of official positions

to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it

to do one's shopping

comprador

to offer a bribe

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

buy one, get one free / two for the price of one

to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)

(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018

to pay the restaurant bill