thighs

Originally written as , depicting a person with a marker indicating the location of the thigh. Later the ⺼ component was added.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

夃 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

  

thigh

Modern form looks like .

Evolution

股 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
股 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
股 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
股 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

thighs, haunches, rump; share; thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (stock) share; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below [kē]; classifier for long winding things like ropes, rivers etc; classifier for smoke, smells etc: thread, puff, whiff; classifier for bands of people, gangs etc; classifier for sudden forceful actions

Most common words with 股
Freq.
Word
Meaning

屁股

buttocks

thigh

股票

share certificate

股东

shareholder

股份

stock

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷˤaʔ

kuX

thigh


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 39.8687% of movies

923rd most common character in movies

644th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+80A1

Shuowen

“股,髀也。从肉,殳聲。”


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