zǒng
collect
Original meaning:
bind together
Phonosemantic compound. 糹 represents the meaning and 悤 represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "bind together", since thread (糹) is used to put things together.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 總
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
always | ||
always | ||
president (of a country) | ||
in a word | ||
to sum up |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ts]ˤoŋ | tsuwng | zōng | bundle of threads |
*[ts]ˤoŋ | tsuwngX | zǒng | bind together |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 92.4876% of movies
266th most common character in movies
228th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+7E3D |
Shuowen | “總，聚束也。从糸，悤聲。” |
Sources
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