to buy / to purchase

= + : Mahatma Gandhi visits the airplane. He sees a neat skull and a nice sickle, and he asks for the price, because he wants to buy them both.

买 character breakdown

variant of 乙[zhe2]

Mnemonic symbol: a sickle.

James II of England (zh) cuts his own hair with his new sickle (乛) in the elevator's kitchen (e2).
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Tecumseh (t) is inspecting is depiction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He's depicted as having a skull (mnemonic symbol for 头) head (头) with two petal leaves (⺀) in the eye holes, and having a robot (大) body.
suffix for nouns
Character component without intrinsic meaning

A sickle.

Characters with 买 as component

to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) wants to get rid of his worldly possessions and sets up a flea market in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). He displays a cross (十), a sickle (㇖) and a skull (头) which he wants to sell (卖), so he attached price tags to all of them.
see 苣蕒菜|苣荬菜[ju4 mai3 cai4]

Words with 买

variant of 邀買人心|邀买人心[yao1 mai3 ren2 xin1]
buy one, get one free / two for the price of one
to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc)
(Internet slang) eggcorn for the song lyrics "I love Poland" that became a catchphrase in 2018
to pay the restaurant bill
to buy back / to redeem / repurchase
to ingratiate oneself
to buy a title / to use wealth to acquire office
buying and selling of official positions
to acknowledge sb as senior or superior (often in negative) / to accept (a version of events) / to buy it
to visit a prostitute / (literary) to buy wine or drinks
to do one's shopping
to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)
to buy tickets / (Tw) to buy votes (in an election)
to buy on margin (finance)
to speculate / to play the market / (fig.) to sell hot air / to swindle people by posing as a reputable operator
lit. to buy smiles to seek happiness / abandon oneself to the pleasures of the flesh (idiom)
see 買路錢|买路钱[mai3 lu4 qian2]

Sentences with 买

买 currently does not appear in any sentence.