(gǔ) - thigh, share, strand (bound) in Mandarin
gǔTraditional: 股
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Translation
thigh, share, strand (bound)
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound: 月 (the flesh or body element) on the left relates it to the body, giving thigh, and 殳 supplies the sound. From the sense of a portion of the body came the extended meaning of a share or strand.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 月 (body element) + 殳 (phonetic)
Stroke order
股
Examples
。
He bought some stocks.
。
This company has expensive shares.
。
He sits on his bottom.
。
I bought some shares in the company.
炒。
He made a fair bit of money trading stocks.
股 (gǔ) means thigh, share, or strand, the second half of 屁股 (pìgu) and the head of 股票 (gǔpiào, stock).
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 股.
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