買 Stroke Order

買 1. To exchange money for things; opposite of "sell." - Example phrases: 買賣 (buy and sell), 買辦 (1. person procuring goods; 2. intermediary or agent running a business in the domestic market for foreign capitalists), 買名 (to buy a reputation), 買好 (to buy something good), 買笑 (old term referring to seeking pleasure in a brothel), 買主 (buyer), 買方 (buyer), 買春 (to buy wine, commonly used in the Tang Dynasty with many wine names containing "spring"). 2. To bring upon oneself. - Example phrase: 買禍 (to bring disaster upon oneself). 3. A surname. Verb: To purchase goods with money. - Example phrases: 買田 (buy land), 買書 (buy books), 買空賣空 (buying and short selling). - Example from Tang poet Bai Juyi: "Merchants prioritize profit over separation; last month I went to buy tea at Fuliang." - Example from Tang poet Liu Hun: "Recently, what can be done about peonies, hundreds or thousands of coins buy a single flower." Verb: To seek or to obtain. - Example from "History of the Southern Dynasties": "He sighed, saying: 'To glorify the shape of virtue is to express the feelings of the earth; am I really someone who buys fame to seek an official position?'" - Example from Song poet Su Shi: "Competing to acquire new favorites, each has its own ideas; this year the fight for quality fills the official tea."