Japanese symbol for “purchasers”
購買層
こうばいそう
Romaji: koubaisou
purchasers; customer base; market (for a product)
In Japanese, purchasers is 購買層, read こうばいそう (koubaisou).
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Meanings
- n purchasers; customer base; market (for a product)
Kanji and stroke order
Related words
Words that share a kanji.
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 購入 | こうにゅう kounyuu | purchase; buying |
| 購買 | こうばい koubai | procurement; purchase; buying |
| 購読 | こうどく koudoku | buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.); subscribing (incl. free subscriptions); taking (e.g. newspaper) |
| 購買力 | こうばいりょく koubairyoku | buying power; purchasing power |
| 購う | あがなう aganau | to buy; to pay for |
| 定期購読 | ていきこうどく teikikoudoku | subscription (e.g. to a magazine) |
| 買う | かう kau | to buy; to purchase |
| 買取 | かいとり kaitori | purchase; buying; buying out |
| 一層 | いっそう issou | even more; still more; all the more |
Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.