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股权 (gǔ quán) — equity rights; shareholder rights; shareholding

Definition

A business/legal term for the ownership stake a shareholder holds in a company. Pairs naturally with 股东 ('shareholder'); 转让 ('transfer') and 稀释 ('dilution') are common collocations in financial contexts.

noun
equity rightsshareholder rightsshareholding

Examples

  • 股权。
    Tā gòu mǎi le gōng sī bǎi fēn zhī shí de gǔ quán.
    He purchased ten percent of the company's equity.
  • 股权。
    gǔ quán Zhuǎn ràng xū yào jīng guò dǒng shì huì pī zhǔn.
    Equity transfer requires approval from the board of directors.
  • 股权。
    Zhè cì róng zī huì xī shì xiàn yǒu gǔ dōng de gǔ quán.
    This round of financing will dilute existing shareholders' equity.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

股gǔshare
权quánrights

股 (share) and 权 (rights) combine to mean rights attached to shares.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

In 股, the left 肉 marks the body. The right side, now written 殳, comes from 夃, an old form for thigh, and gives the sound.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 權; 权 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
木木mùtree
Sound part声符shēngfú
雚
雚guàn權quán
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 權 shows 木, a tree, with 雚 giving the sound; it named a kind of tree and was used for a standard weight. The simplified 权 is a later shorthand, not the historical shape.

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Appears in
Finance & Banking

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