購

See also: 购

Translingual

Han character

購 (Kangxi radical 154, 貝+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 月金廿廿月 (BCTTB), four-corner 6585₇, composition ⿰貝冓)

Derived characters

• 𧃛

Related characters

• 购 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1211, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 36885
• Dae Jaweon: page 1677, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3654, character 2
• Unihan data for U+8CFC

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Chinese

trad.		購
simp.		购

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (冓) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
溝	*koː
篝	*koː
鞲	*koː
韝	*koː, *kʰoː
褠	*koː
冓	*koː, *koːs
構	*koːs
購	*koːs
媾	*koːs
覯	*koːs
遘	*koːs, *koːs
煹	*koːs
搆	*koːs
講	*kroːŋʔ
耩	*kroːŋʔ
傋	*kroːŋʔ, *qʰroːŋʔ
斠	*kroːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *koːs) : semantic 貝 (“shellfish”) + phonetic 冓 (OC *koː, *koːs).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 購

1. to buy, to purchase
2. to hire

References

• “購”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

購

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: く (ku)
• Kan-on: こう (kō, Jōyō)^{←こう (kou, historical)}
• Kun: あがなう (aganau, 購う)^{←あがなふ (aganafu, 購ふ, historical)}

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Korean

Hanja

購 • (gu) (hangeul 구)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 購 (cấu)

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