買い
Meanings
Noun
1. buying; shopping
2. buyer
3. purchase
Kanji used
Pitch accent
かい
Used in vocabulary
買取
purchase; buying; buying out; buying used articles as a company; trade-in; buy back; purchase on a no-return policy; lump-sum payment; flat fee
Noun
買い付け
buying (in large quantities); (wholesale) purchase; buying in; (one's) usual (store, supplier, etc.); regular; favourite (brand, shop, etc.)
Noun
青田買い
speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
Noun
Examples2
安物 買い の 銭 失い。
Buy cheap and waste your money.
「今週 から プール開き ね」「そっかー。 じゃあ、 水着 買い に 行か なきゃ」
"It's pool-season from this week, isn't it?" "Oh yes. I've gotta go and buy a swimming suit, then."