购

購
gòu
#1,076 most
frequent character
to purchase
verb

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

购 pairs 贝 money with 勾 gōu, which supplies the sound. It first meant to offer money to obtain something. That grew to simply mean to buy. 贝 stands for 貝 in Simplified Chinese.

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Example Sentences

我想购一辆新的车。
wǒxiǎng gòu yī liàng xīnde chē 。
I want to purchase a new car.
他每天都会购一些水果。
tā měitiān dōuhuì gòu yīxiē shuǐguǒ 。
He buys some fruit every day.
我们最近购了很多书。
wǒmen zuìjìn gòu le hěnduō shū 。
We have purchased many books recently.

Words with similar meanings

买mǎi
to buy
A more commonly used term for purchasing that is very colloquial.
选购xuǎngòu
to select and purchase
This term implies a selection process before buying, often used in a context of choosing from options.

Homophones

HSK 4
够gòu
to reach, to be enough
构gòu
to construct, to form, to make up

Words Starting With 购

购物gòu wù
shopping

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