| 1 | 买 | 買 | mǎi | mai3 | to buy; to purchase | | |
| 2 | 买卖 | 買賣 | mǎi mài | mai3 mai4 | buying and selling; business; business transactions; Classifiers: 桩 | | |
| 3 | 买办 | 買辦 | mǎi bàn | mai3 ban4 | comprador | | |
| 4 | 买到 | 買到 | mǎi dào | mai3 dao4 | bought | | |
| 5 | 买主 | 買主 | mǎi zhǔ | mai3 zhu3 | customer | | |
| 6 | 买票 | 買票 | mǎi piào | mai3 piao4 | to buy tickets; (Tw) to buy votes (in an election) | | |
| 7 | 买价 | 買價 | mǎi jià | mai3 jia4 | buying price | | |
| 8 | 买进 | 買進 | mǎi jìn | mai3 jin4 | to purchase; to buy in (goods) | | |
| 9 | 买空 | 買空 | mǎi kōng | mai3 kong1 | to buy on margin (finance) | | |
| 10 | 买空卖空 | 買空賣空 | mǎi kōng mài kōng | mai3 kong1 mai4 kong1 | to speculate; to play the market; (fig.) to sell hot air; to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator | | |
| 11 | 买路财 | 買路財 | mǎi lù cái | mai3 lu4 cai2 | see 买路钱 | | |
| 12 | 买路钱 | 買路錢 | mǎi lù qián | mai3 lu4 qian2 | money extorted as a right of passage; illegal toll; (old) paper money thrown along the way of a funeral procession | | |
| 13 | 买菜 | 買菜 | mǎi cài | mai3 cai4 | Grocery shopping | | |
| 14 | 买面子 | 買面子 | mǎi miàn zi | mai3 mian4 zi5 | to allow sb to save face; to defer to | | |
| 15 | 买家 | 買家 | mǎi jiā | mai3 jia1 | buyer; client | | |
| 16 | 买入 | 買入 | mǎi rù | mai3 ru4 | to buy (finance) | | |
| 17 | 买餸 | 買餸 | mǎi sòng | mai3 song4 | to buy groceries (Cantonese) | | |
| 18 | 买通 | 買通 | mǎi tōng | mai3 tong1 | to bribe | | |
| 19 | 买笑追欢 | 買笑追歡 | mǎi xiào zhuī huān | mai3 xiao4 zhui1 huan1 | lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness; abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom) | | |
| 20 | 买一送一 | 買一送一 | mǎi yī sòng yī | mai3 yi1 song4 yi1 | buy one, get one free; two for the price of one | | |
| 21 | 买账 | 買賬 | mǎi zhàng | mai3 zhang4 | to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative); to accept (a version of events); to buy it; variant of 买帐 | | |
| 22 | 买不起 | 買不起 | mǎi bu qǐ | mai3 bu5 qi3 | cannot afford; can't afford buying | | |
| 23 | 买方市场 | 買方市場 | mǎi fāng shì chǎng | mai3 fang1 shi4 chang3 | buyer's market | | |
| 24 | 买单 | 買單 | mǎi dān | mai3 dan1 | to pay the restaurant bill | | |
| 25 | 买车票 | 買車票 | mǎi chē piào | mai3 che1 piao4 | Buy tickets | | |