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叢

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

丛

🇨🇳

thicket

HSK 10

Nature →Plants →Shrubs

cóng

ソウ、ス

くさむら、むら.がる、むら

총

Origin unclear.

Components

Traditional (叢)

丵 thick+ 取 take =

叢 thicket

zhuó thick

thick (grass)

thick

取 Phonetic component

qǔ take

take, receive, obtain

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Simplified (丛)

一 one+ 从 since =

丛 bush

一 Simplified component

yī one

Stroke added to distinguish this character from 从.

从 Phonetic component

cóng since

from, by, since, whence, through

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Notes

Similar Characters

凿 bore (simp)對 that's right (trad)業 profession (trad/jp)菐 thicket 鑿 bore a hole (trad)业 business (simp)冣 most 娶 take a wife 最 most 聚 assemble 诹 consult (simp)趣 interest 陬 corner 齱 uneven teeth 鯫 small (trad)鲰 small fish (simp)

Historical Evolution

Bronze Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Bronze

Early Spring and Autumn (~700 BC)

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

叢

Regular

Modern

Chinese

丛 / 叢 [cóng]

cluster; collection; collection of books; thicket

Japanese

叢そう同音

n-sufnoun anatomy plexus; rete

草むら、叢、草叢くさむら同音

noun the grass; grassy place (esp. with long dense grass)

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

叢くさむら

Kusamura surname

叢そう

Sou surname

CHINESE WORDS (21)

丛林 [cónglín] #4,726

树丛 [shùcóng] #10,938

草丛 [cǎocóng] #18,628

丛书 [cóngshū] #40,788

a series of books

灌木丛 [guànmùcóng] #12,877

丛生 [cóngshēng] #33,169

growing as a thicket

花丛 [huācóng] #23,876

cluster of flowers

人丛 [réncóng] #52,051

crowd of people

灌丛 [guàncóng] #47,528

丛谈 [cóngtán] #61,051

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JAPANESE WORDS (38)

⭐ 群 [ぐん] #4,609

⭐ 群がる [むらがる] #7,234

草むら [くさむら] #13,682

祠 [ほこら] #16,523

村雨 [むらさめ] #50,714

叢立ち [そうだち] #52,053

standing in a group

叢雲 [むらくも] #61,604

gathering clouds

竹叢 [たかむら] #77,238

叢書 [そうしょ] #77,909

series (of publications)

葉群 [はむら] #89,585

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KOREAN WORDS (1)

collection of books; series