jiū

gather together

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as , a pictograph of two ropes entangled together.

Components

Meaning component

is a component form of .

SoundMeaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Three Kingdoms (Cao Wei) 222-280 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartkjiwXk<r>iwʔ plait, unite

說文解字

《說文》:“糾,繩三合也。从糸、丩。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica