HSK 5 · Money

股票 gǔpiào “shares” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 股票 means

  1. shares
  2. stock
  3. share certificate
  4. stock (finance)

How to say 股票

  • 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 fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale票piào4th tone, falling

股票 in a sentence

  1. 他把钱投资于股票。

    Tā bǎ qián tóuzī yú gǔpiào.

    He invested his money in shares.

    Sentence #846061 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 他玩股票赔了。

    Tā wán gǔpiào péi le.

    He lost money playing the stock market.

    Sentence #2680361 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 股票价格跌至历史新低。

    Gǔpiào jiàgé diēzhì lìshǐ xīndī.

    Share prices fell to a record low.

    Sentence #798079 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 股票 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 票 (piào) with each of its parts in a different colour
票piàoticket
  • 覀cover form of 襾 · yà
  • 示sign · shì

How to write 股票

股 8 strokes · 票 11 strokes

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

Words related to 股票

Words with 股

屁股pìgu · bottom股东gǔdōng · shareholder股份gǔfèn · share

Words with 票

票piào · ticket机票jīpiào · air ticket门票ménpiào · entrance ticket (for an attraction检票jiǎnpiào · to check tickets发票fāpiào · invoice支票zhīpiào · cheque彩票cǎipiào · lottery ticket钞票chāopiào · banknote投票tóupiào · to vote

More words: Money & Economy

出口chūkǒu · exit兑换duìhuàn · to exchange (money)发票fāpiào · invoice风险fēngxiǎn · risk黄金huángjīn · gold汇率huìlǜ · exchange rate经商jīngshāng · to be in business进口jìnkǒu · to import

FAQs

股票 (gǔpiào) means “shares” or “stock”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it gǔpiào: gǔ with a 3rd tone, then piào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 股票 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type gupiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 股票 from the suggestions. Typing gupiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
股票 is an HSK 5 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.