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Mythic Mandarin

采购 (cǎi gòu): meaning and stroke order

采购 (cǎi gòu) means to procure (for an enterprise etc), to purchase.

采购

Simplified
采购
Traditional
採購
Pinyin
cǎi gòu

Stroke order of 采购

采

  • cǎi to pick; to pluck
  • cǎi color; complexion
  • cài used in 采邑[cai4 yi4] and 采地[cai4 di4]
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 採

Stroke by stroke

购

  • gòu to buy; to purchase
  • 8 strokes
  • Traditional form: 購

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 采购

  1. cǎi gòu Traditional 採購
    • to procure (for an enterprise etc)
    • to purchase

Radicals of the characters

采
Radical 釆 (Kangxi radical 165) · 8 strokes · 爫 on top, 木 below
购
Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 贝 on the left, 勾 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

采购 in our stories

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  • 周一上午，采购经理陶然要和一家老供应商谈明年的合同。

    zhōuyī shàngwǔ cǎigòu jīnglǐ Táo Rán yào hé yì jiā lǎo gōngyìngshāng tán míngnián de hétong

    On Monday morning, purchasing manager Tao Ran was due to negotiate next year's contract with a long-standing supplier.

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 采购

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).