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(gǔ) - thigh, share, strand (bound) in Mandarin

Traditional: 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)

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Examples

He bought some stocks.

This company has expensive shares.

He sits on his bottom.

I bought some shares in the company.

chǎo

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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This word is part of lesson 107.