漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
組: association, braid
Also: plait, construct, assemble, unite, cooperate, grapple
JLPT N311 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met
糸 carries the meaning · 且 gives the sound
11 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
ソso · on'yomi · in compounds
- 組織するそしきするorganize
- 組閣するそかくするform a cabinet
- 労組ろうそlabor union
くむkumu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 組むくむput together
くみkumi · kun'yomi
- 組くみclass, team, set
- 一年一組いちねんいちくみ1st grade, homeroom 1
- 組合くみあいunion, association
-ぐみ-gumi · kun'yomi
- 番組ばんぐみprogram (TV)
- 三人組さんにんぐみtrio
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)糸 silk (meaning) + 且 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 組 (rev. 91481245), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Everything is connected! This radical represents the invisible threads that tie us together—our relationships, the fine "silk" of our words, and the intricate weaving of our personal histories.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
且
Also built on moreover (且)
組 takes the 且 family's reading, ソ (so).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side組 association · 且
vs絹 silk · 肙In ChineseSimplified 组 · traditional, as in Japanese · zǔ
Japan keeps the traditional form 組; mainland China simplifies it to 组.
- Simplified
- 组 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 組 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zǔ 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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