Chinese symbol for “shopping”
购物
gòu wù
Traditional: 購物
shopping
The closest CC-CEDICT match for shopping is 购物 (gòu wù), defined as: shopping.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “shopping”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 购物.
| 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); acq |
| 采购 (採購) | cǎi gòu | to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase |
| 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 |
| 人物 | rén wù | person; personage; figure (esp. sb of importance); character (in a play, novel etc) |
| 动物 (動物) | dòng wù | animal |
| 物质 (物質) | wù zhì | matter; substance |
See also: Japanese symbol for “shopping”.
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.