Character: 集
Modern (Beijing) reading: jí
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)ǝp
Classic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)ǝp
Western Han Chinese: ʒ(h)ǝp
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ(h)jǝp
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)jip
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)jip
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)jip
Middle Chinese: ʒjip
English meaning : to come together, settle, perch; achieve
Russian meaning[s]: 1) собираться; вместе; собрание, сборище; рынок, ярмарка; 2) собирать, составлять; сборник, собрание сочинений; сборный, сводный; 3) смешиваться; 4) согласие, гармония; 5) закончить; закончиться успехом; 6) стая птиц на дереве; сесть (о птице)
Shuowen gloss: #:群鳥在木上也從#木.集:#或省,
Comments: Also written as 輯 in Shi. This is somewhat confusing, because 輯 must have been originally a graphic variant of a synonymous, but phonetically different 揖 *ćip 'to cluster together' (q.v.). It is quite probable that the confusion of 輯 and 集 must be due to later scribes. Originally 集 must have had a sibilant *ʒ(h)- and a labial vowel - both because of external parallels and the relationship with 萃 OC *ʒuts < *ʒup-s 'to collect, assemble'.
Radical: 172
Four-angle index: 5174
Karlgren code: 0691 a-c
Go-on: zifu
Kan-on: sifu
Shijing occurrences: 2.1
