买

mǎi = m + ai3

to buy / to purchase

买 = ㇖ + 头 : 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

买
- 乛
- 头
  - 大
    - 一
    - 人
      - 丿
      - ㇏
  - ⺀
    - 丶
- ㇖

乛

zhé = zh + e2

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).

头

頭

tóu = t + ou2

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]

头 = ⺀ + 大 : 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.

头

頭

tou = t + ou5

suffix for nouns

㇖

Character component without intrinsic meaning

A sickle.

Characters with 买 as component

卖

賣

mài = m + ai4

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

卖 = 十 + ㇖ + 头 : 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.

荬

蕒

mǎi = m + ai3

see 苣蕒菜|苣荬菜[ju4 mai3 cai4]

买

买 character breakdown

Characters with 买 as component

Words with 买

Sentences with 买