買單

See also: 买单

Chinese

		buy	bill; list; form bill; list; form; single; only; sole; surname; chieftain
trad. (買單)		買	單
simp. (买单)		买	单

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Cantonese 埋單／埋单 (maai⁴ daan¹). The third tone of the first character (after tone sandhi) in Mandarin is similar to the fourth tone in Cantonese.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǎidān

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˇ ㄉㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁵ daan¹
• Hakka (Meixian, Guangdong): mai¹ dan¹
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): bóe-toaⁿ / bé-toaⁿ

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhoi² duan¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǎidān
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˇ ㄉㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǎidan
    • Wade–Giles: mai³-tan¹
    • Yale: mǎi-dān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maedan
    • Palladius: майдань (majdanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ tän⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maai⁵ daan¹
    • Yale: máaih dāan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁵ daan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁵ dan¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯¹³ taːn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: mai¹ dan¹
    • Sinological IPA: /maɪ⁴⁴ tan⁴⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Taipei, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bóe-toaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: bué-tuann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boefdvoaf
    • IPA (Singapore): /bue⁴²⁻²⁴ tuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bue⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ tuã³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Taipei): /bue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tuã⁴⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou, Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bé-toaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: bé-tuann
    • Phofsit Daibuun: befdvoaf
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /be⁵³⁻⁴⁴ tuã⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ tuã⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhoi² duan¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bói tuaⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /boi⁵²⁻³⁵ tũã³³/

Verb

買單

1. to pay the restaurant bill; to pick up the bill; to pay the check
2. (neologism, chiefly in the negative) to accept someone else's apology, explanations, ideas or attitude

Synonyms

• (to pay the restaurant bill):

Dialectal synonyms of 結賬 (“to pay a bill; to settle accounts”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		結賬
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	買單
	Taiwan	結賬, 買單
	Singapore	買單
Cantonese	Guangzhou	睇數, 埋單, 找數
	Hong Kong	埋單, 找數, 睇數
	Taishan	睇數, 結數
	Kaiping (Chikan)	找數
	Singapore (Guangfu)	埋單
Hakka	Meixian	買單
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	算數, 結數
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	算數, 結數
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	算數, 結數
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	算數, 結數
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	算數, 結數
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	算數, 結數
Southern Min	Xiamen	結數
	Quanzhou	結數
	Zhangzhou	結數
	Tainan	結數
	Singapore (Hokkien)	結數
	Chaozhou	結數
	Wenchang	作數
	Haikou	作數
	Singapore (Hainanese)	結數
Wu	Wenzhou	算賬, 買單