gòu
buy
Phonosemantic compound. 貝 represents the meaning and 冓 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 購
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
shopping | ||
to buy | ||
to buy | ||
to acquire (a company) | ||
to purchase |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤ(r)o-s | kuwH | gòu | present (v.), give |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 18.3726% of movies
1498th most common character in movies
1078th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8CFC |
Shuowen | “購，以財有所求也。从貝，冓聲。” |
Sources
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