购 (gòu): meaning and stroke order
购 (gòu) means to buy, to purchase.
购
- Simplified
- 购
- Traditional
- 購
- Pinyin
- gòu
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Stroke order of 购
购
- gòu to buy; to purchase
- 8 strokes
- Traditional form: 購
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Meaning of 购
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gòu
Traditional 購
- to buy
- to purchase
Radical and structure
- 购
- Radical 贝 (Kangxi radical 154) in its simplified form · 8 strokes · 贝 on the left, 勾 on the right
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Words with 购
- 采购 cǎi gòu to procure (for an enterprise etc); to purchase
- 购物 gòu wù shopping
- 抢购 qiǎng gòu to buy frenetically; to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc)
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).