The kanji 購: meaning, readings and stroke order

購

Meaning: buy, purchase
On reading: コウ kou
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 17
Radical: 貝 shell
Level: Level 9 · senior high school

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: mua (cấu)
Japanese: かう。かいもとめる。
Korean: 사다, 구입하다 (구)
Chinese: 购买 (购)

Readings, words and example sentences

コウ kou · on reading · less common

購こう入にゅう
purchase, buying
新しい道具を 購こう入にゅうします。
We buy new tools.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.