股 - Dong Chinese dictionary

gǔ

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 Meaning component

ròu

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

夃 Sound Meaning component

gū

thigh

Modern form looks like 殳.

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

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

股

gǔ

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 科[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