verb #20,856

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 5
Zhè zhāng zhuānjí jílù le tā zuì yǒu dàibiǎoxìng de zuòpǐn.
This song collection brings together her most representative works.
HSK 7-9
Tā fùzé biānjí zhè běn wénjí.
She is responsible for compiling and editing this anthology.

Tips

usage
carries the sense of gathering scattered pieces into one whole. It appears in 编辑 (to edit), 专辑 (album), and 辑录 (to compile).

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. It supplies the sound qì to jí through a regular palatal shift. The same phonetic frame appears in to gather, oar, to bow.

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