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聚

聚

Translingual

Han character

聚 (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)

  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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 聚

Glyph origin

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, OC *zloʔ, *zlos) : phonetic 取 ‎(OC *sʰloːʔ, *sʰloʔ) + semantic 乑 ‎(“three men”).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 聚
Mandarin Beijing /t͡ɕy⁵¹/
Harbin /t͡ɕy⁵³/
/t͡ɕy⁴⁴/ ～寶盆
Tianjin /t͡ɕy⁵³/
Jinan /t͡ɕy²¹/
Qingdao /t͡sy⁴²/
Zhengzhou /t͡sy³¹²/
Xi'an /t͡ɕy⁴⁴/
Xining /t͡ɕy⁵³/
Yinchuan /t͡ɕy¹³/
Lanzhou /t͡ɕy¹³/
Ürümqi /t͡ɕy²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕy³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡ɕy¹³/
Guiyang /t͡ɕi²¹³/
Kunming /t͡ɕi²¹²/
Nanjing /t͡sy⁴⁴/
Hefei /t͡sz̩ʷ⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡ɕy⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡ɕy³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /ʑy²³/
Suzhou /zi³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /zz̩³⁵/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy²²/
Tunxi /t͡sʰi²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /t͡si⁵⁵/
/t͡si¹¹/
Xiangtan /d͡zi²¹/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰy²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰi⁵³/
Taoyuan /t͡sʰi⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡søy²²/
Nanning /t͡sy²²/
Hong Kong /t͡søy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡su²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /t͡søy²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /t͡sy⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡su³⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /t͡si³⁵/
/t͡sek̚⁵/ 訓積
Rime
Character 聚 聚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 從 (15) 從 (15)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 慈庾切 才句切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /d͡zɨoX/ /d͡zɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /d͡zioX/ /d͡zioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /d͡zioX/ /d͡zioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /d͡zuə̆X/ /d͡zuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /d͡zioX/ /d͡zioH/
Wang
Li		 /d͡zĭuX/ /d͡zĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /d͡zʱi̯uX/ /d͡zʱi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 jù jù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 聚 聚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 jù jù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ dzjuX › ‹ dzjuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-tsʰoʔ/ /*m-tsʰoʔ-s/
English bring together bring together

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 聚 聚
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10659 10662
Phonetic
component		 取 取
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 聚 埾
Old
Chinese		 /*zloʔ/ /*zlos/

Definitions

聚

  1. to congregate
  2. to pile up
  3. (chemistry) poly-
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

聚

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

聚 (tụ, sụ, tọ, xụ, xủ)

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