漢字Kanji · in Textiles, Plants & Food
総: general, whole
Also: all, full, total
JLPT N214 strokesGrade 5Your ink: 白 Not met
- 糸thread(meaning)
- 忩(sound)
糸 carries the meaning · 忩 gives the sound
14 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
ソウsou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 総長そうちょう(college) president
- 総額そうがくsum total
- 総論そうろんgeneral remarks
- 総会そうかいgeneral meeting
- 総選挙そうせんきょgeneral election
- 総理大臣そうりだいじんPrime Minister
- 総括するそうかつするrecap, summarize
- 総合するそうごうするput together, integrate
Also read すべて, すべて, ふさ, 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)糸 rope (meaning) + 悤 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 總 (rev. 93443775), 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
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side総 general · 忩
vs統 overall · 充In ChineseSimplified 总 · traditional 總 · zǒng
Three different forms: Japanese 総, simplified 总, traditional 總.
- Simplified
- 总 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 總 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zǒng 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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