股

HSK 7–9#1720 by frequencyradical ⺼

gǔ["q","n"]

(stock) share; 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; thigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; strand of a thread; low-level administrative unit, translated as "section" or "department" etc, ranked below 科

Examples

房里有股烟味。

The room smelled of tobacco.

房里闻起来有股烟味。

The room smelled of tobacco.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.