股民
gǔ mín · HSK 7
share trader
📈 股民 = 股 (stock/share) + 民 (people/citizen)
股 means share or stock, and 民 means people or citizen. Together 股民 literally reads as stock-people — the everyday folk who buy and sell shares, i.e. retail investors.
股 — meat/flesh 月 (肉) + weapon 殳
Originally a semantic-phonetic compound: 月 (a form of 肉 'flesh') gives the meaning of a body part — the thigh — while 殳 hints at the sound. The thigh meaning extended to 'section' or 'portion,' and from there to modern senses like a strand of something or a share of stock.