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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

买好

mǎihǎo

to ingratiate oneself

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to ingratiate oneself

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 买好 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 买好 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

我把一打鸡蛋买好了。wǒ bǎ yī dǎ jī dàn mǎi hǎo le。

I finished buying a dozen eggs.

既然房间里新家具都买好了,这点破家具都可以丢掉了!jì rán fáng jiān lǐ xīn jiā jù dōu mǎi hǎo le, zhè diǎn pò jiā jù dōu kě yǐ diū diào le!

Now that we've bought new furniture for the room, why not throw away this old, worn-out furniture?

我买好了徐家汇附近的高层。wǒ mǎi hǎo le xú jiā huì fù jìn de gāo céng。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 买好.

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

Directly before

  • 我买好2
  • 都买好2
  • 鸡蛋买好1

Directly after

  • 买好了5
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 买好

What does 买好 mean in Chinese?

买好 (mǎihǎo) means to ingratiate oneself.

How do you pronounce 买好?

买好 is pronounced mǎihǎo.

Is 买好 an HSK word?

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

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