股票 (gǔpiào) · stock

股 gǔ · share

What 股 is made of

• ⺼ — meat
• 殳shū — tool
  • 几jǐ — small table
    • 丿 — falling stroke
    • 乙yǐ — second
  • 又yòu — and

票 piào · ticket

What 票 is made of

• 覀xī — west
• 示shì — altar
  • 二 — two strokes
    • 一 — horizontal stroke
    • 一 — horizontal stroke
  • 小xiǎo — small
    • 亅 — hook
    • 八bā — eight

Origin hint: Flames 覀 over an altar 示, referring to a Chinese tradition of burning fake money as an offering (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)