买账

買賬

mǎizhàng

verb #24,768

Meanings

1 to buy into
2 to accept
3 to go along with
4 to acknowledge someone's superiority or argument

Characters

to buy; to purchase

account; bill; debt

Examples

他不买账，坚持自己的观点。

Tā bù mǎizhàng, jiānchí zìjǐ de guāndiǎn.

He didn't buy it and stuck to his own opinion.

消费者不买账，新产品销量惨淡。

Xiāofèizhě bù mǎizhàng, xīn chǎnpǐn xiāoliàng cǎndàn.

Consumers didn't buy in — the new product's sales were dismal.

这个道理他明白，但情感上不买账。

Zhège dàolǐ tā míngbai, dàn qínggǎn shàng bù mǎizhàng.

He understands the logic, but emotionally he just doesn't buy it.

Tips

usage

买账 is almost always used in the negative: 不买账 means to refuse to accept, acknowledge, or be persuaded by something. It originated from the commercial sense of 'settling an account' — if you don't 买账, you're not paying/accepting the bill being presented to you.

Stroke Order

买 mǎi

账 zhàng