沽
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to buy; to sell
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 沽
- Common rank
- #2,809
- Unicode
- U+6CBD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 沽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大沽口炮台 | Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a p… | |
| 大沽炮台 | Taku Forts, maritime defense works in Tianjin dating back to the Ming dynasty, playing a p… | |
| 沽源县 | Guyuan, a county in Zhangjiakou City 張家口市|张家口市[Zhang1 jia1 kou3 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 待价而沽 | to sell only for a good price (idiom); to wait for a good offer | |
| 汉沽区 | Hangu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区[Bin1… | |
| 沽空 | (finance) to short sell | |
| 塘沽区 | Tanggu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区[Bin… | |
| 沽源 | see 沽源縣|沽源县[Gu1 yuan2 Xian4] | |
| 汉沽 | Hangu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区[Bin1… | |
| 沽名钓誉 | to angle for fame (idiom); to fish for compliments | |
| 津沽 | another name for Tianjin 天津 | |
| 泸沽湖 | Lugu Lake, alpine lake on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan | |
| 塘沽 | Tanggu former district of Tianjin, now part of Binhai subprovincial district 濱海新區|滨海新区[Bin… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 古 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 古 sound part | old, classic, ancient | |
| 苦 | bitter; hardship, suffering | |
| 胡 | recklessly, foolishly; wildly | |
| 居 | to live, to reside; to dwell; to sit | |
| 故 | reason, cause; happening, instance | |
| 固 | to solidify; strength | |
| 估 | merchant; to estimate, to guess, to presume | |
| 咕 | mumble, mutter, murmur; rumble | |
| 鸪 | species of Taiwan pigeon | |
| 蛄 | mole cricket | |
| 辜 | crime, offense, sin | |
| 祜 | blessings, happiness, prosperity | |
| 怙 | to rely on; to presume; father (formal) | |
| 钴 | cobalt; clothes-iron | |
| 罟 | net, snare; to implicate | |
| 诂 | explanation; to comment, to explain | |
| 骷 | skeleton | |
| 嘏 | felicity, prosperity; large and strong | |
| 轱 | wheel; to revolve, to turn |