買

Glyph origin
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consider it to be a.

Etymology
Possibly from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. considers this allofam to be a result of borrowing from  several times into Sino-Tibetan languages.

Alternatively, consider 買 and 賣 to be borrowed from, which may have a family of verbs related to possession: , , ,. However, argues that the direction of borrowing is more likely to be from Chinese to Hmong-Mien because Hmong-Mien does not seem to have a suffix that would give rise to the tone in the word for “to buy”. In addition to these two ways of relating the Chinese word to Hmong-Mien, proposes common inheritance as a third option and maintains that more evidence is needed to determine which of the three explanations are correct.

The surname only appears among Taiwanese aboriginals and Hui people in Mainland China. The surname is from the Siraya name Takalomay in Taiwan or possibly from the name for Hui people.

Definitions

 * 1) to buy; to purchase
 * 2) to bribe
 * 3) to persuade
 * 1) to persuade

Kanji

 * 1) to buy

Hanja

 * 1) "Goguryeo" language: *me, “river, water”
 * 1) "Goguryeo" language: *me, “river, water”