漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
株: stocks, stump
Also: shares, stock, counter for small plants
JLPT N110 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
木 carries the meaning · 朱 gives the sound
10 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
かぶkabu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 株かぶshare, stock, stump
- 株式かぶしきstock [n.]
- 株価かぶかstock prices
- 株券かぶけんstock certificate
- 株主かぶぬしshareholder, stockholder
- 株主総会かぶぬしそうかいgeneral meeting of stockholders
- 株式会社かぶしきがいしゃstock company, corporation
- 株分けかぶわけroot division
- 切り株きりかぶstump, stubble
Also read シュ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)木 tree (meaning) + 朱 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 株 (rev. 92161640), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Stand before a great, ancient tree and see 木! The vertical line is the sturdy trunk, the top strokes are branches reaching for the sunlight, and the bottom strokes are the roots gripping the earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side株 stocks · 木
vs殊 particularly · 歹In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhū
Same form: 株 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 株 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 株 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhū most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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