# 集 — Collect

Frequency rank 171 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Common in published Japanese. A handful of these and real text starts to open.

More common than 顔 (Face), less common than 東 (East).

- On’yomi: しゅう
- Kun’yomi: あつ
- Radical: 隹 Short-Tailed Bird (Kangxi 172)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX

The short-tailed sparrow shrieks once from the crossbar and a turkey drops in beside it, then twenty more birds, then two hundred.

In words:

- 集る あつまる — to gather
- 集める あつめる — to collect something
- 集まり あつまり — gathering,meeting,assembly,collection

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