沽 — Chinese character
沽
gū
to buy and sell; of inferior quality
- Pinyin
- gū
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 古
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 古
- Japanese
- 沽 as a kanji
Common words with 沽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 待价而沽 (待價而沽) | dài jià ér gū | to sell only for a good price (idiom); to wait for a good offer |
| 沽名钓誉 (沽名釣譽) | gū míng diào yù | to angle for fame (idiom); to fish for compliments |
| 沽空 | gū kōng | (finance) to short sell |
沽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4
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.