adverb #7,609

Meanings

  1. 1 all; both; entirely

Examples

Wànshìjùbèi.
Everything is ready.
Jùlèbù hěn dà.
The club is very big.

Tips

usage
俱乐部 = club (transliteration), 面面俱到 = thorough in every aspect.

Components

radical
rén
person (radical form of 人)
Left person radical, the side form of . It indexes in the people-doing-things family: , , , , , . means 'all together, in company,' so the radical points exactly at the social meaning — a person doing something alongside other people. The plurality is in the radical, not the phonetic.
phonetic
tool; to possess (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound directly: jù. Same phonetic powers fear, hurricane. itself depicts two hands lifting a vessel — assembling, providing, having ready. Faintly semantic too: carries that 'having it all assembled' flavor, used when a group is gathered with everything in place (万事俱备 'all is prepared').

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