買辦

See also: 买办 and 買弁

Chinese

		buy	to do; to manage; to handle to do; to manage; to handle; to go about; to run; to set up; to deal with
trad. (買辦)		買	辦
simp. (买办)		买	办

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǎibàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˇ ㄅㄢˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maai⁵ baan⁶ / maai⁵ baan^6-2
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): mái-pān / bé-pān / bóe-pān
• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁶ma-be

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǎibàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˇ ㄅㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǎibàn
    • Wade–Giles: mai³-pan⁴
    • Yale: mǎi-bàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: maebann
    • Palladius: майбань (majbanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pän⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maai⁵ baan⁶ / maai⁵ baan^6-2
    • Yale: máaih baahn / máaih báan
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maai⁵ baan⁶ / maai⁵ baan^6-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: mai⁵ ban⁶ / mai⁵ ban^6-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːi̯¹³ paːn²²/, /maːi̯¹³ paːn²²⁻³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: mái-pān
    • Tâi-lô: mái-pān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: may'pan
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /mãi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pan²²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /mãi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ pan⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Kaohsiung)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bé-pān
    • Tâi-lô: bé-pān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: befpan
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /be⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ pan³³/
  • (Hokkien: Taipei)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bóe-pān
    • Tâi-lô: bué-pān
    • Phofsit Daibuun: boefpan
    • IPA (Taipei): /bue⁵³⁻⁴⁴ pan³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶ma-be
    • MiniDict: ma^去 be
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ma-be
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ma²² be⁴⁴/

Noun

買辦

1. purchaser; agent; intermediary
2. comprador

   • 現在國民黨新軍閥的統治，依然是城市買辦階級和鄉村豪紳階級的統治，對外投降帝國主義，對內以新軍閥代替舊軍閥，對工農階級的經濟的剝削和政治的壓迫比從前更加厲害。 [MSC, trad.]
     现在国民党新军阀的统治，依然是城市买办阶级和乡村豪绅阶级的统治，对外投降帝国主义，对内以新军阀代替旧军阀，对工农阶级的经济的剥削和政治的压迫比从前更加厉害。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1928, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《中國的紅色政權為什麼能夠存在？》 (Why is it that Red Political Power can Exist in China?), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Xiànzài Guómíndǎng xīn jūnfá de tǒngzhì, yīrán shì chéngshì mǎibàn jiējí hé xiāngcūn háoshēn jiējí de tǒngzhì, duìwài tóujiàng dìguózhǔyì, duìnèi yǐ xīn jūnfá dàitì jiù jūnfá, duì gōngnóng jiējí de jīngjì de bōxuē hé zhèngzhì de yāpò bǐ cóngqián gèngjiā lìhài. [Pinyin]

     The present regime of the new warlords of the Kuomintang remains a regime of the comprador class in the cities and the landlord class in the countryside; it is a regime which has capitulated to imperialism in its foreign relations and which at home has replaced the old warlords with new ones, subjecting the working class and the peasantry to an even more ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression.

Derived terms

• 買辦資本 / 买办资本 (mǎibàn zīběn)
• 買辦資產階級 / 买办资产阶级 (mǎibàn zīchǎn jiējí)

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: mại bản