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Kanji Detail for 集 - "to gather, to collect, assembly"

集

  • Meaning

    集 means "to gather, to collect, assembly."

    1. Gather - To bring together.

    2. Collect - To assemble; to compile.

    3. Assembly - A group; a collection.

  • Words using 集

    • 集会 しゅうかい Listen meeting; assembly; gathering
    • 集団 しゅうだん Listen group; mass
    • 集中 しゅうちゅう Listen concentration (on a task); focusing one's attention; concentration (of population, buildings, power, etc.)
    • 募集 ぼしゅう Listen recruitment; invitation; selection
    • 特集 とくしゅう Listen feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report
    • 召集 しょうしゅう Listen convening; calling together (e.g. parliament); call-up (for military service)
    • 結集 けっしゅう Listen concentration (of efforts, forces, etc.); gathering together; regimentation
    • 集計 しゅうけい Listen totalization; totalisation; aggregation

  • Four-character idioms with 集

    • 離合集散 りごうしゅうさん Listen meeting and parting; alliance and rupture (e.g. changing alignment of political parties)
    • 雲集霧散 うんしゅうむさん Listen (many things) gathering like clouds and vanishing like mist; swarming and scattering

  • Tattoo check: 集

    • Verified meaning: to gather, to collect, assembly
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read あい, あつまり, あつまる, あつむ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 集

    Given names 集(あつむ)Listen 集(しゅう)Listen 集(つどい)Listen 集(ひとし)Listen

    Surnames 集(あい)Listen 集(あつまり)Listen 集(あつまる)Listen 集(しゅうご)Listen 集(しゅうみ)Listen 集(むねみつ)Listen 集(むねもと)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    gather; meet; congregate; swarm; flock

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    assemble, collect together

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to gather; to collect; collected works; classifier for sections of a TV series etc: episode

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to gather, to collect; set, collection

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To gather. As in meetings are also called 集會. | Arriving in great numbers. As in 少長咸集 (young and old all gathered). | To accomplish. As in accomplishing a task is also called 集事. | Combining scattered pieces into one whole is called 集. As in 集款 (collecting funds) and the like. | A market town is called 集. Referring to a place where people gather for trade. | A completed written work is called 集. As in 詩集 (poetry collection), 文集 (essay collection).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shuu(シュウ) シュウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    atsu.maru(あつ-まる) あつ-まる

    atsu.meru(あつ-める) あつ-める

    tsudo.u(つど-う) つど-う

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    隹 (furutori)

  • Related Keywords

    to gather to collect assembly accomplish congregate swarm accumulate amass anthology assemble cluster compilation compile congregation crowd group heap huddle muster stockpile together unite roundup

Sentences including 集

  • Don't look out the window. concentrate on your work.

  • John passed among the crowd.

  • The japanese like to travel in groups.

  • He gathered his books together.

  • Let's get together again next year.

  • I was concentrating on reading.

  • The meeting broke up at seven.

  • We get together once a year.

  • There were a great many people present at the assembly.

  • All you have to do is to concentrate.

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