assemble

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
取 sound component

  Sound component

  

take

乑 meaning component

  Meaning component

yínzhòng

  

people standing side-by-side

Evolution

聚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聚 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
聚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

assemble, meet together, collect; to congregate; to assemble; to mass; to gather together; to amass; to polymerize

Most common words with 聚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

聚会

party

to mass

聚集

to assemble

团聚

to reunite

凝聚

to condense

Component uses

Sound component in 3 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*m-tsʰoʔ

dzjuX

bring together

*m-tsʰoʔ-s

dzjuH

bring together


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 36.2166% of movies

1033rd most common character in movies

1306th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Unicode

U+805A

Shuowen

“聚,會也。从,取聲。邑落云聚。”


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