verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to gather; to assemble (archaic); old form of 集

Examples

Dàjiā zài guǎngchǎng shàng jíhé.
Everyone gathered together in the square.

Tips

history
('to gather', an old form of ) is archaic and not used independently in modern Chinese. It is the inverted 'mouth / converging' top seen in (to join), (now), (hut / to give up), and (life / order).
memory
An inverted — three strokes coming to a point from above, like things drawing together. That is the 'assemble' idea in .

Components

ideograph
to gather; converge
Three strokes meeting at a top point, an abstract symbol of things converging. A pure ideograph, not decomposable into smaller parts in .

Filed under radical (rén, #9) by convention. is not a separate component in , so no strokes are highlighted.

Stroke Order