Shopping in Chinese
shopping · HSK 4
购物
- 购 to buy
- 物 thing
周末我喜欢和妈妈去购物。 On weekends I like to go shopping with my mom.
More words with 购 or 物
How do you say shopping in Chinese?
Shopping in Chinese is 购物 (gòu wù).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.