叢 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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cóng

bush

Origin unclear.

Components

丵 Unknown component

zhuó

chisel

thick

取 Sound component

qǔ

take

叢 and 取 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.叢 /*dzˤoŋ/
取 /*tsʰˤoʔ/, /*tsʰoʔ/, /*[ts]ʰoʔ-s/

Evolution

Bronze script

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

丛 (叢)

cóng

bush, shrub; thicket; collection; cluster; collection of books

Most common words with 叢

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	丛林	jungle
	丛	cluster
	树丛	thicket
	草丛	underbrush
	丛书	a series of books

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*dzˤoŋ	dzuwng	cóng	collect; thicket

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.4483% of movies

2125th most common character in movies

1678th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	18
Simplified	丛
Unicode	U+53E2
Shuowen	“叢，聚也。从丵，取聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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