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买 — to buy; to purchase

Pinyin
mǎi
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 买: 6 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

买 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 买 in the HSK syllabus: 4

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 买mǎito buy; to purchaseHSK 1
  2. 购买gòumǎito purchase; to buyHSK 4
  3. 买卖mǎimaipurchase and sale; transaction; shop; storeHSK 5
  4. 收买shōumǎito purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy offHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.