Chinese symbol for “procure”
采购
cǎi gòu
Traditional: 採購
to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase
The closest CC-CEDICT match for procure is 采购 (cǎi gòu), defined as: to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “procure”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉皮条 (拉皮條) | lā pí tiáo | to procure; to act as pimp |
| 采办 (採辦) | cǎi bàn | to buy on a considerable scale; to purchase |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 采购.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 采用 (採用) | cǎi yòng | to adopt; to employ |
| 采取 (採取) | cǎi qǔ | to adopt or carry out (measures, policies, course of action); to take |
| 采访 (採訪) | cǎi fǎng | to interview; to gather news |
| 开采 (開採) | kāi cǎi | to extract (ore or other resource from a mine); to exploit |
| 采集 (採集) | cǎi jí | to gather; to collect |
| 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); acq |
| 购物 (購物) | gòu wù | shopping |
See also: Japanese symbol for “procure”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.