# 組 — Group

Frequency rank 244 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 運 (Carry), less common than 電 (Electricity).

- On’yomi: そ
- Kun’yomi: く、くみ
- Radical: 糸 Silk (Kangxi 120)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 2
- Strokes: 11

A woman on the stool feeds the boiled cocoon's thread around three throats at once and hauls, and the three heads snap together into one purple group.

In words:

- 組 くみ — class,group,team,set
- 組む くむ — to put together
- 番組 ばんぐみ — television or radio program

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