総

See also 总, and 總

Translingual

shinjitai	总
simplified	総
traditional	總

Etymology

Simplified from 總 (悤 → 忩). Present form Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 糸 (“rope, bind”) + phonetic 忩.

Han character

総 (radical 120 糸+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 女火金戈心 (VFCIP))

1. collect
2. overall, altogether

References

• KangXi: page 929, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27620
• Dae Jaweon: page 1367, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3417, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7DCF

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Japanese

Kanji

総 (grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: ふさ (fusa), すべる (suberu), すべて (subete)

Compounds

• 総合 (そうごう, sōgō, “synthesis, consolidation”)

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Korean

Hanja

総 (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

総 (pinyin zǒng (zong3), Wade-Giles tsung³)