股份
gǔ​fèn HSK7

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股 gǔ, gu thighs

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

Components

⺼
⺼ Meaning component
ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

夃
夃 SoundMeaning component
gū, yíng thigh

Modern form looks like 殳.

Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 夃 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkuXkʷˤaʔ thigh

說文解字

《說文》：“股，髀也。从肉，殳聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

份 fèn, fen portion

Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.

Components

亻
亻 Meaning component
rén person

亻 is a component form of 人.

分
分 Sound component
fēn, fèn, fen divide

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangprɯn
bɯns

說文解字

《說文》：“份，文質僣也。从人，分聲。《論語》曰：‘文質份份。’彬，古文份从彡、林。林者，从焚省聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)