In old texts this character means to take overall charge, the same as the modern character 总.
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惣 is an archaic variant and is not used independently in modern Chinese. Its standard descendant is 总 'to take overall charge / total' (as in 总管 'to be in overall charge', 总共 'in all'). Japanese also keeps 惣 in some old words and names.
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Archaic only — classical text and variant-form notes; modern Chinese uses 总.
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ideograph
惣zǒng
to take overall charge; total
A 勿-shaped phonetic block sits over the heart radical 心, the idea being to hold everything together in mind. The top has contracted so the parts no longer split cleanly, so it is treated as a single self-component indexed under the heart radical.
No stroke data for 惣; the glyph shown is your device font, so component strokes can't be highlighted.
