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股民 (gǔ mín) — stock investor; share trader (often with the implication of ordinary retail investors)

Definition

股民 is a 'stock investor' — a person who trades shares. Contrast with 股市 (the stock market itself) and 股东 (a shareholder, who owns company equity rather than trading stocks).

noun
stock investorshare trader (often with the implication of ordinary retail investors)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • ，股民。
    Zuì jìn gǔ shì bō dòng hěn dà, hěn duō gǔ mín dōu hěn jǐn zhāng.
    The stock market has been very volatile lately, and many stock investors are very nervous.
  • 股民，。
    Zhè wèi lǎo gǔ mín chǎo gǔ èr shí nián le, jīng yàn hěn fēng fù.
    This veteran stock investor has been trading for twenty years and is very experienced.
  • 股民，K。
    Zuò wéi yì míng xīn gǔ mín, tā xiān xué huì kàn K xiàn tú.
    As a new stock investor, he first learned to read candlestick charts.

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gǔstock
民mínpeople

股 (stock) and 民 (people) combine as 'people of stocks', naming ordinary investors.

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.

Open 股 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The early form of 民 shows an eye pierced by a sharp cross-shaped implement, possibly linked to an injured or unclear eye.

Open 民 →
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