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購

Purchase
Stroke count: 17

Readings

On readingコウ

Verbs with «購»

購入する
  1. buying and reading (book, magazine, etc.)
  2. subscribing (incl. free subscriptions)
  3. taking (e.g. newspaper)

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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shellfish · clam · oyster · eye (目) · animal legs (儿) · eight (八) · funnel · cone · celery · again

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1958

Compound words

彼はその家を購入する目的で調べに来た。
He came to inspect the house with a view to buying it.tatoeba
日本人実業家が作品を2億円で購入した。
A Japanese businessman bought the artwork for 200 million yen.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

新しいパソコンを購入した。
あたらしいぱそこんをこうにゅうした。Purchased a new computer.
新しいパソコンを購入した。いま使っているパソコンからデータを移すのが、少し面倒である。
あたらしいぱそこんをこうにゅうした。いまつかっているぱそこんからでーたをうつすのが、すこしめんどうである。I purchased a new computer. Moving data from my current computer is a bit tedious.
パールピアスを購入した
ぱーるぴあすをこうにゅうしたBought pearl earrings.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

17 strokes

Purchase. 貝 (money) + 冓 — paying for goods. 購入 — purchase.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 購

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step