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Chinese

集

jí
to collect; to gather
  • Ideogrammatic compound 會意
  • HSK 6
  • TOCFL 6
  • radical 隹
  • 12 strokes

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Origin

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 隹 (“bird”) + 木 (“tree”).

The variant 雧 (jí) shows three birds instead.

Cognate with 雜 (OC *zuːb, “mixed”) (Karlgren, 1956). Compare Khmer ជួប (cuəp, “to meet”) (Schuessler, 2007).

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Lineage

  • ideaChinese隹 “short-tailed bird”
  • ideaChinese木 “tree; woody plant”

Related: Khmer ជួប

Words built on it: 集中, 收集, 雜, 集合

Meanings

character
  1. to collect; to gather
  2. collection; set
  3. market; fair
  4. Classifier for episodes.
  5. set

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 聚合在一起。 例：集合、聚集、收集
  2. 人口聚集舉行交易的地方。 例：市集、趕集
  3. 彙聚許多著作而成的書。 例：選集、詩集、文集
  4. 我國傳統圖書四部分類的第四部，包括詩文等的作品稱為「集」。 例：小說在經史子集四部中是歸屬集部。
  5. 量詞。計算叢書或影劇集系列的單位。 例：這齣戲今天播出第三集。

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How 集 was written 字形演變

  1. 集 in Oracle bone script
    Oracle bone
    甲骨文
    Shang, c. 1250–1050 BCE
  2. 集 in Bronze script
    Bronze
    金文
    Shang–Zhou
  3. 集 in Chu slips & silk script
    Chu slips & silk
    楚系簡帛
    Warring States
  4. 集 in Qin slips script
    Qin slips
    秦系簡牘
    Qin
  5. 集 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  6. 集 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
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 集