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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

买下

mǎixià

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

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

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

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 买下 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 买下 appears in 7 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

这吉他太贵了,我没法买下。zhè jí tā tài guì le, wǒ méi fǎ mǎi xià。

This guitar is so expensive that I can't buy it.

你能以大约1000日元买下它。nǐ néng yǐ dà yuē 1000 rì yuán mǎi xià tā。

You can buy it for a thousand yen or so.

我希望我能买下你想要的所有东西。wǒ xī wàng wǒ néng mǎi xià nǐ xiǎng yào de suǒ yǒu dōng xī。

I wish I could buy you everything you wanted.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 买下.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 买下.

Directly before

  • 在买下1
  • 日元买下1
  • 马上买下1
  • 就买下1
  • 价钱买下1

Directly after

  • 买下这个1
  • 买下它1
  • 买下这部1
  • 买下这支1
  • 买下这本1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 买下

What does 买下 mean in Chinese?

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

How do you pronounce 买下?

买下 is pronounced mǎixià.

Is 买下 an HSK word?

买下 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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