Chinese Character 集 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

集 meaning^[3] in English

To Gather.

To Collect.

Collected Works.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 集 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are short-tailed bird (隹) , and surname Mu (木)

Its radical^[1] is: 隹 (zhui1) which means: Short-Tailed Bird, .隹zhui1short-tailed bird

In cangjie it is written with OGD

How to write 集

To write集ji2to gather you should write a combination of 隹zhui1short-tailed bird , 木mu4surname Mu arranged in a 吕 shape:

隹 + 木 = 集

集 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 集 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 集, looks as follow: