component #20,856

Meanings

  1. 1 to gather
  2. 2 to compile
  3. 3 to edit

Examples

Biānjí
to edit; editor
Jí lù
to compile; to collect

Tips

usage
vehicle + — gathering materials together, as a vehicle gathers cargo

Components

radical
chē
cart; vehicle
Left cart radical, the simplified form of . Originally meant assembling a cart from its parts — the spokes, hubs, and axles fitted together into a working vehicle. From that came the modern senses: to compile (an anthology), to edit (a book), to gather scattered pieces into one whole.
phonetic
to whisper (here phonetic)
Right — a mouth over an ear , depicting whispering. Supplies the sound qì → jí through a regular palatal shift. Same phonetic frame appears in to gather, oar, to bow — all share the jí / qī cluster of readings that alone holds in modern Mandarin.

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