Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT De keizer is ver weg - boek met wilde avonturen in China

Welcome to the MDBG free online English to Chinese dictionary, the no. 1 Chinese study aid! This website offers more than just a Chinese to English and English to Chinese dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input, written Chinese and more. The MDBG dictionary is used in many schools and universities all over the world, discover why! Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!

Chinese dictionary for Windows 10

MDBG Chinese Reader is the perfect dictionary application for Microsoft Windows. Translate Chinese text and Lookup Mandarin pinyin for Chinese words easily. Just glide your mouse over the Chinese text and a pop-up window shows English translations and Mandarin pronunciations. Learn Chinese faster with MDBG!


handwriting
Auto complete input: off | on

70 results on this page.

Usage Tips
Simplified
Pīnyīn
English Definition Add a new word to the dictionary Traditional
HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *买* | 买* | *买
to buy / to purchase
HSK 1
to purchase; to buy
HSK 4
buying and selling / business / business transactions / CL: 樁|桩,
HSK 5
to purchase; to buy / to bribe; to buy off
HSK 7-9
cannot afford / can't afford buying
HSK 7-9
to buy out / buyout / severance
to buy a house
Jamaica
Mumbai (formerly Bombay)
buyer; purchaser
buyer (in contracts)
to ingratiate oneself
to purchase; to buy / to do one's shopping / purchasing agent; buyer
to pay the restaurant bill
to purchase / to buy in (goods)
buying price
to get drunk; to drown one's sorrows
to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)
customer
comprador
lit. to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom) / fig. to raise an army; to recruit new staff
to bribe
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
to visit a prostitute / (literary) to buy wine or drinks
to buy detail / to buy one at a time
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it
to bribe / bribery
to purchase / to buy (usu. real estate)
variant of 買帳|买帐
to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
to buy and sell at a profit / to speculate
to buy back / to redeem / repurchase
to buy groceries
to buy (finance)
to buy on margin (finance)
to hire a hitman
buy one, get one free / two for the price of one
to do one's shopping
to buy a title / to use wealth to acquire office
to force sb to buy or sell / to trade using coercion
purchasing power
An ounce of gold can't buy you an interval of time (idiom); Money can't buy you time. / Time is precious.
lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (idiom) / fig. time is precious
Best Buy (retailer)
lit. the person from Zheng 鄭|郑 who wanted to buy shoes (an allusion to an ancient story about somebody who, when buying a pair of shoes, preferred to rely on their foot measurements rather than just trying them on) (idiom) / fig. disregarding the sensible approach in favor of adherence to a fixed idea
to buy in bulk / bulk buying
purchaser
used in expressions of the form V不誤|照V不误, in which V is a verb, means "as before", and the overall meaning is "carry on (doing sth) regardless" or "continue (to do sth) in spite of changed circumstances", e.g. 照買不誤|照买不误, to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price hikes)
(idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point
buying and selling of official positions
money extorted by bandits in exchange for safe passage; illegal toll / (old) paper money strewn along the path of a funeral procession
a one-off, short-sighted deal / a one-shot, all-out attempt
(slang) would be better (abbr. for 這錢買排骨它不香嗎|这钱买排骨它不香吗 for that money, a pork cutlet would be more appetizing, would it not?)
dynamite (loanword)
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)
to engage in speculative trading
to keep on buying (a product) regardless (of price increases, adverse publicity etc)
Jamaican pepper; allspice (Pimenta dioica)
GreTai Securities Market (GTSM)
(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018
buyer's market
lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness / abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)
to offer a bribe
to allow sb to save face / to defer to
to buy popular support / to court favor


Tip: Not sure how to type a character? Draw it instead! Click the brush icon next to the input fields to enable the handwriting input method.
© 2024 MDBG Made in Holland
Automated or scripted access is prohibited
Privacy and cookies