股份 (gǔ fèn) — share, stock | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

A unit of company ownership; one share of stock. Less common than 股票 (the actual share certificate you trade) and more abstract than 份额 (a general share/portion of a total).

noun

sharestock

Measure word · 股

Examples

股份，。
Tā mài diào le suǒ yǒu gǔ fèn, zhuàn le yí dà bǐ qián.
He sold all his shares and made a lot of money.
股份。
Gōng sī jì huà fā xíng xīn de gǔ fèn lái chóu jí zī jīn.
The company plans to issue new shares to raise funds.
股份。
gǔ fèn De jià gé jīn tiān shàng zhǎng le bǎi fēn zhī wǔ.
The price of the shares rose by five percent today.

Origin

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

份fènportion

股 (share) and 份 (portion) combine to mean a share in a company.

Characters in this word

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

肉肉ròubody
夃夃gǔthigh

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.

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

亻分份

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rén

Sound part声符shēngfú

分

分fēn份fèn(r)

Same sound today

份 is built from 亻, the person form written in full as 人, and 分, which gives the sound.

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HSK 3.0 Level 7-9 HSK 2.0 Level 6 Finance & Banking

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