集 — gather, meet, congregate

しゅう集 gather

Grade 3 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes

U+96C6 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #210 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #601 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

gather
meet
congregate
swarm
flock

word

しゅう shuu On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

集(しゅう) shuu collection 集(しゅう) 中(ちゅう) shuuchuu concentration 集(しゅう) 合(ごう) shuugou gathering 集(しゅう) 会(かい) shuukai meeting 集(しゅう) 計(けい) shuukei totalization 集(しゅう) 落(らく) shuuraku settlement 全(ぜん) 集(しゅう) zenshuu complete works 集(しゅう) 客(きゃく) shuukyaku attracting customers

あつ atsu Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

集(あつ) まる atsumaru to gather 集(あつ) める atsumeru to collect 集(あつ) まり atsumari gathering 集(あつ) め atsume collecting

つど tsudo Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

集(つど) う tsudou to gather 集(つど) い tsudoi gathering

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

隹 short-tailed bird

き木 tree #75

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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