Dong Chinese dictionary

zǔ

class

Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 且 represents the sound.

Components

糹 Meaning component

sī, mì

silk

糹 is a component form of 糸.

且 Sound component

qiě

moreover

組 and 且 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

zǔ

class; section, department; to form; to organize; group; team; classifier for sets, series, groups of people, batteries

Zǔ

surname Zu

Most common words with 組

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