叢

See also 丛

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 丵 + phonetic 取

Han character

叢 (radical 29 又+16, 18 strokes, cangjie input 廿金廿水 (TCTE), four-corner 3214₇)

1. bush, shrub
2. thicket
3. collection

References

• KangXi: page 167, character 12
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3220
• Dae Jaweon: page 379, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 402, character 15
• Unihan data for U+53E2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

叢 (simplified 丛, Yale chung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

叢

Readings

• On: そう (sō)
• Kun: くさむら (kusamura), むらがる (muragaru)

Noun

叢 (hiragana くさむら, romaji kusamura)

1. clump of bushes, thicket

Alternative forms

• 草叢
• 草むら

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

叢 (simplified 丛, pinyin cóng (cong2), Wade-Giles ts'ung²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

叢 (tùng, tòng)