gòu
buy
Phonosemantic compound. 贝 represents the meaning and 勾 represents the sound. Simplified form of 購.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernMost common words with 购
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
shopping | ||
to buy | ||
to buy | ||
to acquire (a company) | ||
to purchase |
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 | 8 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8D2D |
Sources
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