HSK 6 · Money

股东 gǔdōng “shareholder” in Chinese

Traditional 股東

What 股东 means

  1. shareholder
  2. stockholder

How to say 股东

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale股gǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale东dōng1st tone, high and level

股东 in a sentence

  1. 他是这家公司的大股东。

    Tā shì zhè jiā gōngsī de dà gǔdōng.

    He’s a major shareholder in this company.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 股东大会每年召开一次。

    Gǔdōng dàhuì měinián zhàokāi yí cì.

    The shareholders’ meeting is held once a year.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 股东 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 股 (gǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
股gǔthigh
  • ⺼meat form of 肉 · ròuMeaning part
  • 殳weapon · shūSound part

⺼ hints at the meaning (meat); 殳 (shū) hints at the sound. Compare it with gǔ.

The character 东 (dōng) with each of its parts in a different colour
东dōngeast
  • 七seven · qī
  • 小small · xiǎo

Memory aidSimplified from 東, drawn from a sack tied at both ends. It was borrowed for “east”.

How to write 股东

股 8 strokes · 东 5 strokes

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股东 (gǔdōng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 股东 (gǔdōng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 股东

Words with 股

股票gǔpiào · shares屁股pìgu · bottom股份gǔfèn · share

Words with 东

东西dōngxi · thing东dōng · East东方dōngfāng · the East东北dōngběi · northeast东南dōngnán · southeast房东fángdōng · landlord东道主dōngdàozhǔ · host东张西望dōngzhāngxīwàng · to look around in all directions

More words: Money & Economy

富裕fùyù · well-off供不应求gōngbùyìngqiú · demand exceeds supply共计gòngjì · to total供给gōngjǐ · to supply股份gǔfèn · share耗费hàofèi · to consume合算hésuàn · worthwhile回报huíbào · to repay

FAQs

股东 (gǔdōng) means “shareholder” or “stockholder”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it gǔdōng: gǔ with a 3rd tone, then dōng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 股东 is written 股東. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gudong with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 股东 from the suggestions. Typing gudong into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
股东 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.