購入

Taken apart

1. 購

   こう

   present, give

2. +

3. 入

   にゅう

   enter

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Written with 購入

In a sentence

• 私(わたし)は新(あたら)しいテレビを購入(こうにゅう)した。

  I bought a new television.

  Tatoeba #155747, translation #258790

• 私(わたし)はその品物(しなもの)を半額(はんがく)で購入(こうにゅう)した。

  I purchased the goods for half price.

  Tatoeba #159896, translation #254626

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

• “/koːnipu/ → /koːniɸu/ → /koːniu/ → /koːnjuː/”
• “From Middle Chinese compound 購入 /购入 (kuwᴴ nyip, literally “present, give + enter”). Compare modern Cantonese reading kau³ jap⁶.”

Source: Wiktionary: 購入 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese

Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Compound

Two or more words or stems joined into one.

Borrowing

Taken over from another language.

Sound change

The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.