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聚
Mandarin · pinyin jù
Meanings
- to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive)
- (chemistry) poly-
Characters in this entry
- 聚
- jù · assemble, meet together, collect
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Mandarin tones
4 · ju4
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Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 11 senses · 2 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
cou5 · zeoi6
Cantonese word readings for 聚. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to gather; to congregate; to assemble
- to gather; to congregate; to assemble — (specifically, informal) to meet up; to hang out
- (literary, or in compounds) to pile up; to heap up
- (literary, or in compounds) to levy; to collect; to impose
- (literary, or in compounds) to extort; to plunder; to expropriate; to fleece
- (literary, or in compounds) village; hamlet
- (literary) crowd; drove (of people)
- (literary) savings (money set aside for the future)
- (chemistry) poly-
- 59th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "massing" (𝍀)
- a surname, Ju
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