Japanese word
買う
かう
In your course · Chapter 11
- Part of speech
- verb
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 650 in the course corpus
Meanings
- buy (plain)
- to buy
- to purchase
- to value (highly)
- to think highly of
- to have a high opinion of
- to appreciate
- to recognize
- to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.)
- to elicit (e.g. sneers)
- to invite (e.g. scorn)
- to evoke
- to arouse
- to win (someone's favour)
- to accept
- to take on
- to take up
- to pay for (a prostitute, geisha, etc.)
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 買
- On reading:
- バイ
- Kun reading:
- か.う
- Meanings:
- buy
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))