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Information of 购

Pinyin gòu

Radical

贝

Strokes

8 strokes

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Definition

to buy / to purchase

购 gòu 1. 买。 (To buy.) 例：购置，赊购。 (Examples: purchase, to buy on credit.) 2. 悬赏征求。 (To offer a reward for solicitation.) 例：购求，购募。 (Examples: set bait for capture, reward for solicitation.) 【本义】: 悬赏征求 (Original meaning: to offer a reward for solicitation.) 【造字法】: 形声。从贝。从“贝”，表示与财物有关。 (Character formation: phonetic-meaning compound. From the component for "shell," indicating connection to wealth.) 同本义 (To offer a reward for): 1. 《说文》：购，以财有所求也。 (In Shuowen: Gòu means seeking something with money.) 2. 《广雅·释言》：购，偿也。 (In Guangya: Gòu means recompense.) 3. 《史记·项羽本纪》：吾闻汉购我头千金，邑万户，吾为若德。 (From Shiji: I heard the Han offers a thousand gold for my head and ten thousand households; I will return this favor.) 4. 宋·文天祥《指南录后序》：穷饿无聊，追购又急，天高地迥，号呼靡及。 (From Wen Tianxiang: In desperate hunger and boredom, the swift pursuit to offer for something is futile, calling out to the sky and earth.) 例：购求 (setting a reward to capture criminals); 购问 (offering a reward for inquiry); 购悬 (reward for capture). 2. 原指用重金收买，后泛指买 (Originally referred to purchasing with large sums of money, later generalized to buying.) 例：购粮；购房；购地。 (Examples: purchase grain, buy a house, purchase land.) 3. 通“媾”。讲和 (To make peace with a foreign country.) 例：购于秦 (to make peace with Qin; to negotiate with Qin.) 引例： 1. 《旧唐书·褚遂良传》：帝方博购王羲之贴。 (From Jiu Tang Shu: The emperor is then collecting the works of Wang Xizhi.) 2. 清·龚自珍《病梅馆记》：予购三百盆，皆病者，无一完者。 (From Gong Zizhen: I bought three hundred pots; all were sick, not one was intact.) 例：购辑 (buy to collect); 购请 (to purchase).

并购 bìng gòu

merger and acquisition (M and A) / acquisition / to take over

抢购 qiǎng gòu

to buy frenetically / to snap up (bargains, dwindling supplies etc)

收购 shōu gòu

to purchase (from various places) / to acquire (a company)

购汇 gòu huì

foreign exchange purchasing

洽购 qià gòu

Negotiate

申购 shēn gòu

to ask to buy / to bid for purchase

购买力 gòu mǎi lì

purchasing power

竞购 jìng gòu

to bid competitively / to compete to buy (at auction)

购置 gòu zhì

to purchase

购买 gòu mǎi

to purchase / to buy

订购 dìng gòu

to place an order / to subscribe

认购 rèn gòu

to undertake to purchase sth / to subscribe (to share issue)

赊购 shē gòu

to buy on credit / to delay payment

采购 cǎi gòu

to procure (for an enterprise etc) / to purchase

选购 xuǎn gòu

to select and purchase / to buy

购物 gòu wù

shopping

购销 gòu xiāo

purchase and sale / buying and selling

购房 gòu fáng

house-purchase

回购 huí gòu

buyback / repurchase / to buy back

购进 gòu jìn

buy / buying-in / purchase

购得 gòu dé

to purchase / to acquire

购入 gòu rù

purchase / buy

统购统销 tǒng gòu tǒng xiāo

state monopoly of purchasing and marketing

统购 tǒng gòu

state purchasing monopoly / unified government purchase

定购 dìng gòu

to order goods / to place an order