漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
集: gather, meet
Also: congregate, swarm, flock
JLPT N412 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
隹 carries the meaning · 木 is drawn in
12 strokes
Four readings, and the words that use each
シュウshuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 募集するぼしゅうするrecruit, collect
- 集中するしゅうちゅうするconcentrate
- 特集するとくしゅうするfeature article/issue/program
- 編集するへんしゅうするedit
- 集団しゅうだんgroup
- 詩集ししゅうpoetry anthology
あつまるatsumaru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 集まるあつまるgather [v.i.]
- 集まりあつまりgathering
あつめるatsumeru · kun'yomi
- 集めるあつめるcollect [v.t.]
つどうtsudou · kun'yomi
- 集うつどうcongregate
Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)隹 bird + 木 tree
The variant 雧 shows three birds instead.
Source: Wiktionary, 集 (rev. 92202129), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Look at those folded wings and that sturdy little body! This is the bird that rests on the garden branches and chirps at dawn.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · jí
Same form: 集 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 集 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 集 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin jí 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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