Chinese symbol for “purchase”
购买
gòu mǎi
Traditional: 購買
to purchase; to buy
The closest CC-CEDICT match for purchase is 购买 (gòu mǎi), defined as: to purchase; to buy.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “purchase”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 买下 (買下) | mǎi xià | to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc) |
| 收买 (收買) | shōu mǎi | to purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy off |
| 购置 (購置) | gòu zhì | to purchase |
| 买进 (買進) | mǎi jìn | to purchase; to buy in (goods) |
| 购得 (購得) | gòu dé | to purchase; to acquire |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 购买.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 买卖 (買賣) | mǎi mài | to buy and sell |
| 买下 (買下) | mǎi xià | to purchase (sth expensive, e.g. a house); to acquire (a company, a copyright etc) |
| 收买 (收買) | shōu mǎi | to purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy off |
See also: Japanese symbol for “purchase”.
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.