漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
購: subscription, buy
JLPT N117 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 貝shell(meaning)
- 冓(sound)
貝 carries the meaning · 冓 gives the sound
17 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
コウkou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 購入こうにゅうpurchase; buying
- 購読こうどくbuying and reading (book, magazine, etc.)
- 購買こうばい
- 購買力こうばいりょくbuying power; purchasing power
- 定期購読ていきこうどくsubscription (e.g. to a magazine)
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Treasure the moment! This radical represents the very origins of commerce and the primal concept of wealth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side購 subscription · 貝
vs講 lecture · 言In ChineseSimplified 购 · traditional, as in Japanese · gòu
Japan keeps the traditional form 購; mainland China simplifies it to 购.
- Simplified
- 购 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 購 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin gòu most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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