聚

Translingual

Japanese	聚
Simplified	聚
Traditional	聚

Han character

聚 (Kangxi radical 128, 耳+8, 14 strokes, cangjie input 尸水竹竹人 (SEHHO) or 尸水人竹人 (SEOHO), four-corner 1723₂, composition ⿱取乑 or ⿱取⿲人亻人)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 967, character 41
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29093
• Dae Jaweon: page 1417, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2791, character 18
• Unihan data for U+805A

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Chinese

trad.		聚
simp. #		聚

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 聚
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (取) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
陬	*ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *ʔslo
棷	*ʔsloː, *sʰloːʔ, *sloːʔ, *ʔsru
掫	*ʔsloː, *ʔsruʔ, *ʔslo
緅	*ʔsloː, *ʔsru, *slos
趣	*sʰloːʔ, *sʰlos
取	*sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ
鯫	*zloː, *zloːʔ, *sʰlo
棸	*rlu, *rluʔ, *ʔsru
鄹	*ʔsru, *zloʔ, *ljoːnʔ
郰	*ʔsru
齱	*ʔsru, *sʰroːɡ
菆	*ʔsru, *sʰros, *zloːn
箃	*ʔsru
黀	*ʔsru
驟	*zrus
最	*zloːds
襊	*sʰoːds, *sʰoːd
蕞	*zoːds
嘬	*sʰroːds
諏	*ʔslo
娵	*ʔslo
娶	*sʰloʔ, *sʰlos, *slo
聚	*zloʔ, *zlos
埾	*zlos
藂	*zloːŋ
叢	*zloːŋ
繓	*ʔsoːd
撮	*ʔsoːd, *sʰoːd

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zloʔ, *zlos) : phonetic 取 (OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ) + semantic 乑 (“three men”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 聚

1. to congregate
2. to pile up
3. (chemistry) poly-
4. 59th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "massing" (𝍀)
5. a surname

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

聚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: ず (zu)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)
• Kan’yō-on: しゅう (shū); じゅ (ju)
• Kun: あつまる (atsumaru, 聚まる); あつめる (atsumeru, 聚める)

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Korean

Hanja

聚 • (chwi) (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune–Reischauer ch'wi, Yale chwi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 聚 (tụ, sụ, tọ, xụ, xủ)

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