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购物

gòu wù

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 購物

购物 (gòu wù) means "shopping". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 购物 means

1. shopping

The characters in 购物

• 购gòuto buy; to purchase
• 物wù(bound form) thing; (literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself…

Example sentences

• 珍外出购物。
  Jane is out shopping.
• 她去购物了。
  She has gone shopping.
• 我喜欢购物。
  I like shopping.
• 她正要去购物。
  She is just going shopping.
• 你喜欢购物吗？
  Do you like shopping?
• 明天我得购物。
  Tomorrow I have to go shopping.

Words starting with 购物

• 购物中心gòu wù zhōng xīnshopping center
• 购物车gòu wù chēshopping cart
• 购物节gòu wù jiéshopping festival; large-scale promotional sales event (e.g. Singles' Day 双十一
• 购物广场gòu wù guǎng chǎngshopping mall
• 购物手推车gòu wù shǒu tuī chēshopping cart
• 购物袋gòu wù dàishopping bag
• 购物券gòu wù quàncoupon
• 购物大厦gòu wù dà shàshopping mall

Where 购物 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Shopping & everyday consumption (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gòu wù correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.