Chinese Character 購 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

購 meaning[3] in English

To Buy.

To Purchase.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are surname Bei (貝) , and inner rooms of … (冓)

Its radical[1] is: (bei4) which means: Surname Bei, .bei4surname Bei

In cangjie it is written with BCTTB

How to write 購

To writegou4to buy you should write a combination of bei4surname Bei , gou4inner rooms … arranged in a shape:

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購 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 購 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:gou4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Buy . To Purchase

Pinyin:bei4
Meaning[3]: Surname Bei

Pinyin:mu4
Meaning[3]: Eye . Item . Section . List . Catalogue . Table Of Contents . Order (Taxonomy) . Goal . Name . Title

Pinyin:ba1
Meaning[3]: Eight . 8

Pinyin:gou4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Inner Rooms Of Palace . Ten Billions

Pinyin:jing3 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Jing, One Of The 28 Constellations Of Chinese Astronomy . Surname Jing

Pinyin:zai4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Again . Once More . Re- . Second . Another . Then (After Sth, And Not Until Then) . No Matter How ... (Followed By An Adjective Or Verb, And Then (Usually) 也[Ye3] Or 都[Dou1] For Emphasis)

Pinyin:yi1
Meaning[3]: One . 1 . Single . A (Article) . As Soon As . Entire . Whole . All . Throughout . 'One' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 1) . Also Pr. [Yao1] For Greater Clarity When Spelling Out Numbers Digit By Digit

Pinyin:ran3 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 冉[Ran3]

Pinyin:jiong1
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 13), Occurring In 用, 同, 网 Etc . See Also 同字框[Tong2 Zi4 Kuang4]

Pinyin:tu3
Meaning[3]: Tu (Ethnic Group) . Surname Tu

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 購in English or Chinese