购 — Chinese character
购
gòu
to buy, to purchase
- Pinyin
- gòu
- Radical
- 154 ⾙ (Shell)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 贝 勾
- Formation
- pictophonetic — money; meaning component 贝; sound component 勾
- Traditional
- 購
Common words with 购
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 购买 (購買) | gòu mǎi | to purchase; to buy |
| 收购 (收購) | shōu gòu | to purchase or acquire in bulk or at an official level (esp. by a state or organization); to acquire or take over (a company or equity); acquisition; takeover |
| 采购 (採購) | cǎi gòu | to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase |
| 购物 (購物) | gòu wù | shopping |
| 并购 (併購) | bìng gòu | merger and acquisition (M and A); acquisition |
| 订购 (訂購) | dìng gòu | to place an order; to subscribe |
| 购置 (購置) | gòu zhì | to purchase |
| 代购 (代購) | dài gòu | to buy (on behalf of sb) |
| 购物中心 (購物中心) | gòu wù zhōng xīn | shopping center |
| 认购 (認購) | rèn gòu | to undertake to purchase sth; to subscribe (to share issue) |
| 抢购 (搶購) | qiǎng gòu | to buy frenetically; to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc) |
| 网购 (網購) | wǎng gòu | Internet shopping; to purchase online |
English words written with 购
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.