zǒng

collect

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bind together", since thread () is used to put things together.

Components
糹 deleted component

  Deleted component

  

silk

悤 sound,simplified component

  Sound Simplified component

cōng

  

agitated

Evolution

总 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
总 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
总 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
总 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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zǒng

collect; overall, altogether; always; to assemble; gather; total; overall; head; chief; general; in every case

Most common words with 总
Freq.
Word
Meaning

always

总是

always

总统

president (of a country)

总之

in a word

总结

to sum up

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 92.4876% of movies

266th most common character in movies

228th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Traditional

Unicode

U+603B


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