zǒng
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 pressed and hurried; harried (only used in 倥偬)

Examples

将军一生戎马倥偬
Jiāngjūn yìshēng róngmǎ kǒngzǒng.
The general spent his whole life amid the rush of military campaigns.

Tips

usage
never stands alone. It occurs only in the literary word 倥偬, meaning 'pressed by urgent affairs', often in the set phrase 戎马倥偬 ('the rush and hardship of military life'). Tap it here because it appears in character breakdowns of that phrase.

Components

radical
rén
person
The 'person' radical on the left points to a harried human state; it is the indexing radical for .
phonetic
zǒng
to gather up; phonetic element
The right side supplies the sound for and hints at being overwhelmed by everything piling up at once.

Stroke Order

zǒng