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股市

gǔ shì

HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

股市 (gǔ shì) means "stock market". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 股市 means

1. stock market

The characters in 股市

• 股gǔthigh; part of a whole; portion of a sum; (finance) stock; share
• 市shìmarket; city; municipality (administrative unit)

Example sentences

• 我爸爸现在非常专注于股市。
  Wǒ bàba xiànzài fēicháng zhuānzhù yú gǔshì.
  My father is very much involved in the stock market now.
• 汤姆觉得他有机会在股市赚一大笔钱。
  Tāngmǔ juéde tā yǒu jīhuì zài gǔshì zhuàn yī dà bǐ qián.
  Tom thought that he had a chance to make a lot of money on the stock market.
• 在十九世纪三十年代的大萧条时期，许多富人在股市崩盘中失去了一切。
  Zài shíjiǔ shìjì sānshí niándài de Dà Xiāotiáo shíqī, xǔduō fùrén zài gǔshì bēngpán zhōng shīqù le yīqiè.
  During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
• 由于害怕中国冠状病毒爆发会对全球经济命脉的供给链造成长期损害，全球股市在周一暴跌。
  Yóuyú hàipà Zhōngguó guānzhuàng bìngdú bàofā huì duì quánqiú jīngjì mìngmài de gōngjǐliàn zàochéng chángqī sǔnhài, quánqiú gǔshì zài Zhōuyī bàodiē.
  Stock markets around the world tumbled Monday over fears that China’s coronavirus outbreak is causing long-term damage to the supply chains that are the lifeblood of the global economy.

Sounds the same

Read gǔ shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 鼓室tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read gǔ shì correctly.
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