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Chinese

組

/t͡su²¹⁴/
to weave
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 5
  • radical 糸
  • 11 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaːʔ): semantic 糸 (“silk”) + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa).

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese糸 “thin silk”
  • soundChinese且 “this”

Words built on it: 組織

Meanings

character
  1. to weave
  2. a thin, wide silk band
  3. to organize; to unite; to form
  4. group; team
  5. Classifier for sets and series.
  6. Classifier for groups of people.

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

組：綬屬。其小者以爲冕纓。从糸且聲。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 構成、組織。 例：組閣、組團
  2. 機關社團中因一定目的和需要合成的單位。 例：宣傳組、廣告組、迅雷小組
  3. 事物性質相同或相近而分的類別。 例：自然組、社會組、理工組
  4. 量詞。計算成套的物品或人事編制的單位。 例：這項遊戲分兩組進行。

© Ministry of Education, Taiwan — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW, shown unaltered.

How 組 was written 字形演變

  1. 組 in Bronze script
    Bronze
    金文
    Shang–Zhou
  2. 組 in Chu slips & silk script
    Chu slips & silk
    楚系簡帛
    Warring States
  3. 組 in Qin slips script
    Qin slips
    秦系簡牘
    Qin
  4. 組 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  5. 組 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 組