聚

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聚 U+805A, 聚
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-805A
← 聙
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 聛 →

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)

Derived characters

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

Chinese

trad. 聚
simp. # 聚
2nd round simp. ⿱众一
alternative forms
冣
𨛿
𦼈
𧅞
𣷗
冣
𨛿
𦼈
𧅞
𣷗
𧚿
𬥁
𫮣
𦖰
 

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”).

Etymology

Compare Burmese စု (cu., “to accumulate”) (Luce, 1981).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • zi5 - vernacular;
  • zi4 - literary.
    • 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 (Hokkien) /t͡su²²/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /t͡søy²⁴²/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /t͡sy⁴²/
    Shantou (Teochew) /t͡su³⁵/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /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
    Baxter dzjuX dzjuH
    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/
    Bernhard
    Karlgren         		/d͡zʱi̯uX/ /d͡zʱi̯uH/
    Expected
    Mandarin
    Reflex         		jù jù
    Expected
    Cantonese
    Reflex         		zeoi6 zeoi6
    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. * 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 gather; to congregate; to assemble
      1. (specifically, informal) to meet up; to hang out
    2. (literary, or in compounds) to pile up; to heap up
    3. (literary, or in compounds) to levy; to collect; to impose
    4. (literary, or in compounds) to extort; to plunder; to expropriate; to fleece
    5. (literary, or in compounds) village; hamlet
    6. (literary) crowd; drove (of people)
    7. (literary) savings (money set aside for the future)
    8. (chemistry) poly-
    9. 59th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "massing" (𝍀)
    10. a surname: Ju

    Synonyms

    • (to gather):
    • (to meet up):
    • (to pile up):
    • (to extort):
    • (village):
    • (crowd):

    Compounds

    References

    Japanese

    Kanji

    聚

    (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: Hán Nôm readings: tụ, sụ, tọ, xụ, xủ

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