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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

买单

mǎidān

to pay the restaurant bill

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to pay the restaurant bill

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 买单 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 买单 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

买单。mǎi dān。

The check, please.

我要买单!wǒ yào mǎi dān!

The check, please!

服务生,买单。fú wù shēng, mǎi dān。

Waiter, the check, please.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 买单.

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

Directly before

  • 自己买单1
  • 居民买单1
  • 我要买单1
  • 狗来买单1

Directly after

  • 买单呀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 买单

What does 买单 mean in Chinese?

买单 (mǎidān) means to pay the restaurant bill.

How do you pronounce 买单?

买单 is pronounced mǎidān.

Is 买单 an HSK word?

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

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