Chinese symbol for “transaction”
买卖
mǎi mai
Traditional: 買賣
purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store
The closest CC-CEDICT match for transaction is 买卖 (mǎi mai), defined as: purchase and sale; transaction; shop; store.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “transaction”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 交易 | jiāo yì | to deal; to trade; to transact; transaction; deal |
| 事务 (事務) | shì wù | (political, economic etc) affairs; work |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 买卖.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 购买 (購買) | gòu mǎi | to purchase; to buy |
| 买下 (買下) | mǎi xià | to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc) |
| 收买 (收買) | shōu mǎi | to purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy off |
| 买单 (買單) | mǎi dān | to pay the bill; to pick up the tab |
| 出卖 (出賣) | chū mài | to offer for sale; to sell; to sell out; to betray |
| 拍卖 (拍賣) | pāi mài | to auction; auction sale |
| 贩卖 (販賣) | fàn mài | to sell; to peddle |
| 卖掉 (賣掉) | mài diào | to sell off |
See also: Japanese symbol for “transaction”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.