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糾

jiū

gather together

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 丩 represents the sound. Originally written as 丩, a pictograph of two ropes entangled together.

Components
糹 meaning component

糹  Meaning component

sī, mì

  

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

丩 sound,meaning component

丩  Sound Meaning component

jiū

  

join

Evolution

糾 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
糾 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
糾 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
糾 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
糾 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

纠 (糾) 

jiū

investigate, inspect; to gather together; to investigate; to entangle; to correct

Most common words with 糾
Freq.
Word
Meaning

纠正

to correct

纠缠

to nag

纠纷

dispute

纠结

to intertwine

纠葛

dispute

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*k<r>iwʔ

kjiwX

jiū

plait, unite


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 11.7091% of movies

1990th most common character in movies

1723rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Simplified

纠

Unicode

U+7CFE

Shuowen

“糾，繩三合也。从糸、丩。”


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