邮购

郵購

yóugòu

verb #21,292

Meanings

1 to purchase by mail
2 to mail-order
3 mail-order (as modifier)

Characters

to purchase / to buy

Examples

他通过邮购买了一套邮票。

Tā tōngguò yóugòu mǎi le yī tào yóupiào.

He purchased a set of stamps by mail order.

邮购商品一般需要一周时间到货。

Yóugòu shāngpǐn yībān xūyào yī zhōu shíjiān dào huò.

Mail-order goods generally take about a week to arrive.

网购出现之前，邮购目录非常流行。

Wǎnggòu chūxiàn zhīqián, yóugòu mùlù fēicháng liúxíng.

Before online shopping existed, mail-order catalogues were very popular.

Tips

culture

邮购 (mail-order) was widely popular in China before the internet era. Today it has largely been replaced by 网购 (online shopping), though the term still appears in legal and commercial contexts.

Stroke Order

邮 yóu

购 gòu