聚

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 取 + semantic 乑 (“three men”)

Han character

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

1. assemble, meet together, collect

References

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

聚 (Yale jeui6)

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Japanese

Kanji

聚

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū), しゅ (shu), じゅ (ju)
• Kun: あつまる (atsumaru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

聚 (pinyin jù (ju4), Wade-Giles chü⁴)

1. (chemistry) poly-

Compounds

• 聚宝盆
• 聚苯乙烯
• 聚变
• 聚丙烯
• 聚餐
• 聚赌
• 聚光灯
• 聚光镜
• 聚合
• 聚合物
• 聚汇
• 聚会
• 聚伙
• 聚积
• 聚集
• 聚歼
• 聚焦
• 聚精会神
• 聚居
• 聚敛
• 聚拢
• 聚氯乙烯
• 聚落
• 聚齐
• 聚醛树脂
• 聚沙成塔
• 聚首
• 聚蚊成雷
• 聚星
• 聚乙烯
• 聚议
• 聚珍版
• 聚酯
• 聚众

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Vietnamese

Han character

聚 (tụ, sụ, tọ, xụ, xủ)