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購

See also: 购
購 U+8CFC, 購
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8CFC
← 賻
[U+8CFB] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 賽 →
[U+8CFD]

Translingual

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Han character

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

Derived characters

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References

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  • 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

Chinese

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trad. 購
simp. 购
alternative forms 𧵈

Glyph origin

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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).

Pronunciation

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Note: kio/káng - colloquial variants.
Rime
Character 購
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 古候切
Baxter kuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kəuH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kəuH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kəwH/
Li
Rong 		/kuH/
Wang
Li 		/kəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/kə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		gòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		gau3
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 購
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		gòu
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kuwH ›
Old
Chinese 		/*kˁ(r)o-s/
English present (v.), give

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 購
Reading # 1/1
No. 4192
Phonetic
component 		冓
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		遘
Old
Chinese 		/*koːs/

Definitions

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購

  1. to buy; to purchase
  2. (literary) to offer an award (e.g. for the capture of a criminal)
  3. (literary) to hire

Synonyms

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Compounds

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References

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Japanese

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Shinjitai 購
Kyūjitai
[1][2][3]
購󠄂
購+&#xE0102;?
(Adobe-Japan1) 		 
購󠄄
購+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

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購

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. to buy, to purchase

Readings

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References

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  1. ^ “購”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2024
  2. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 2033 (paper), page 1068 (digital)
  3. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 1164 (paper), page 595 (digital)

Korean

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Hanja

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購 • (gu) (hangeul 구)

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Vietnamese

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Han character

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購: Hán Nôm readings: cấu

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