BUY 買買
OBTAIN BY PAYING a PRICE FOR something.
Old Chinese Criteria
2. Huò 貨 refers to buying as part of a larger business transaction, but the word is rare in this usage.
3. Dí 糴 (ant. tiào 糶 "sell abroad") refers to buying from another country and importing, especially rice.
4. Mào 貿 (ant. yù 鬻 "sell") refers to the professional trading in something.
5. Gū 沽 / 酤 (ant. gū 沽／酤 "sell liquor"!!) refers specifically to buying wine.
6. Shì 市 refers to going shopping for something, to buying something in the market.
黄金貴：古漢語同義詞辨釋詞典
TRADE 3.
買，購買的通稱。
市，在市場購買。
賈，有固定需要的購買。
貿，購買，多為用貨物直接或輾轉易物。
易，也指以物易物的購買，但要與 “ 交 ” 等連用。
酤，買酒。
糴，買糧食。
貰，先取物延期付款的購買方式。
贖，贖買，用金錢財物或其他代價換取抵押的人身，或抵消罪責。
Modern Chinese Criteria
購
置
販 refers to buying in order to resell, dealing in.
打
請
辦
進
市
贖
躉
賈
購買
購置
置備
置辦
採購
採辦
頂盤
包圓
rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
- Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien
(
DOEDERLEIN 1840)
p.
BUY
emere refers generally to the act of acquiring the right to own something by paying a price.
mercari refers to a formalised mercantile act which concludes negotiations regarding the buying of something, the formal transaction of a bargain.
redimere can refer figuratively to the obtaining of something at a metaphorical "price".
- 韓非子同義詞研究
(
HANFEI TONGYI 2004)
p.
158 - Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum
(
LANGIUS 1631)
p.
EMPTIO
- 論衡同義詞研究
(
LUNHENG TONGYI 2004)
p.
126 - Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p.
- 王力古漢語字典
(
WANG LI 2000)
p.
1336 買，購
1. As WL suggests, the two words do not belong in one synonym group in pre-Buddhist times.
- Using Chinese Synonyms
(
GRACE ZHANG 2010)
p.
282 - Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
(
PILLON 1850)
p.
no. 21 - 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典
(
HONG CHENGYU 2009)
p.
385 - A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms
(
T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004)
p.
no. 21
Words
買 mǎi OC: mreeʔ MC: mɣɛ 59 AttributionsWD
The most current and general word for buying is probably mǎi 買 (ant. mài 賣 "sell").
- Word relations
- Conv: 鬻 / 粥/SELL
The current general words are mài 賣 "offer for sale" and yù 鬻"trade in", as well as shòu 售"get sold, sell off" (ant. mǎi 買 "buy"). - Conv: 賣/SELL
The current general words are mài 賣 "offer for sale" and yù 鬻"trade in", as well as shòu 售"get sold, sell off" (ant. mǎi 買 "buy").
- Syntactic words
- vt(oN)ombuy the contextually determinate thing
- vt+prep+Nstativebe a buyer of, have bought
- vtoNbuy, acquire (official positions) for money; go out to buy; try to buy; buy (a person from his employer)
- vtoNfigurativeaquire by venal means 買譽
- vtoNpassiveget bought
- vttoN1.+N2buy something N2 for someone N1
- vttoN1.+N2N2=pricebuy at a price
- vttoN1.+prep+N2buy N1 from N2
酤 gū OC: kaa MC: kuo̝
沽 gū OC: kaa MC: kuo̝ 6 AttributionsWD
Gū 沽/酤 (ant. gū 沽／酤 "sell liquor"!!) refers specifically to buying wine.
- Syntactic words
- vibuy wine
- vt(oN)buy wine for the contextually determinate person
- vtoNbuy (wine)
市 shì OC: djɯʔ MC: dʑɨ 5 AttributionsWD
Shì 市 refers to going shopping for something, to buy something in the market.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNbuy in the market; buy; go shopping for
- vtoNfigurativebuy the allegiance of (a possible partner)
貿 mào OC: mblus MC: mu 4 AttributionsWD
Mào 貿 (ant. yù 鬻 "sell") refers to the professional trading in something.
- Syntactic words
- vtoNbuy through barter
糴 dí OC: leewɡ MC: dek 3 AttributionsWD
Dí 糴 (ant. tiào 糶 "sell abroad") refers to buying from another country and importing, especially rice.
- Word relations
- Conv: 糶/SELL
Tiào 糶 (ant. dí 糴 "buy rice abroad") refers specifically to selling rice abroad.
- Syntactic words
- nabsocialtrade; sale
- viactbuy (grain) abroad
- vt+prep+Nimport rice from
- vtoNbuy and import (grain)
貰 shì OC: lʰebs MC: ɕiɛi 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNrare and late: buy on credit
賈 gǔ OC: kaaʔ MC: kuo̝ 2 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNfigurative"buy"> acquire at a considerable "price"
- vtoNpassivebe purchased
置 zhì OC: tɯɡs MC: ʈɨ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNbuy
貨 huò OC: hŋʷaals MC: hʷɑ 1 AttributionWD
Huò 貨 refers to buying as part of a larger business transaction, but the word is rare in this usage.
- Syntactic words
- viactengage in business; to peddle
- vtoNbuy as part of a larger business transaction
市得 shì dé OC: djɯʔ tɯɯɡ MC: dʑɨ tək 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNresultativeget to buy in the market
糴買 dí mǎi OC: leewɡ mreeʔ MC: dek mɣɛ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- VPtoNpassivebe bought
賈者 gǔ zhě OC: kaaʔ kljaʔ MC: kuo̝ tɕɣɛ 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- NPindefinitebuyer
鬻 yù MC: yuwk OC: luɡCH 1 AttributionWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNperfectivebuyCH
購 gòu OC: koos MC: ku 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNpost-Han, Tang: purchase
躉 dǔn OC: tuunʔ MC: tuo̝n 0 AttributionsWD
- Syntactic words
- vtoNrare: buy wholesale
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