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Kanji Detail for 沽 - "trade, coarse"

  • Meaning

    沽 means "trade, coarse."

    1. Trade - To buy; to sell; to engage in commerce.

    2. Coarse - Rough; careless; crude.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    price; buying & selling

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    buy and sell; inferior in quality

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    abbr. for Tianjin 天津 (also 津沽)

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to buy and sell; of inferior quality

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Name of a river. There are two. One is the Da Gu River and Xiao Gu River in Shandong, which enter the sea southeast of Laiyang County. The other is the Bai River in Hebei, which becomes the North Grand Canal at Tongxian, then flows south to Tianjin to join the Wei River, and enters the sea at Dagu. Its sea outlet is also called Dagukou. | To sell. The Analects says: "Seeking a good price to sell it" (求善價而沽諸). | To buy. The Analects says: "He would not eat purchased wine or market-bought dried meat" (沽油市脯不食). | A wine seller is called 沽. As in 屠沽 (butcher and vintner), referring to those who sell meat and wine in the marketplace.
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