The original form and exact pictographic origin remain debated in scholarship; some analyses compare it to depictions of interlocking structures or arrangements.
Generally explained as a structural or framework form, “to weave/arrange together.”
Although categorized as a standalone character, it primarily serves as a phonetic component in many compound characters.

Essentially not used alone in modern East Asian languages but important as a phonetic base in other compound characters.
溝 (ditch, channel)


to join, to put together, to build, to construct

 (to construct, framework)
購 (to purchase)


to recite, to study, to explain, to lecture

 (to lecture, explain)
覯 (to meet, encounter)
媾 (to marry, form alliance)

Characters

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Vocabulary

soldier, army, weapon, warfare

that, those, his, her, its, it (pronoun)

to equip, to furnish, to provide, to possess, to have, tools, implements, equipment, complete, whole

law, canon, code, precedent, rule

to combine, to unite, to include

to go forward, to advance slowly, gradually

book, volume, record, document

again, once more

to put together, to arrange, to construct

crown, cap, to crown, foremost

winter, the end of the year

cold, cool, chill

to extinguish, to vanish, to die out, to disappear

to allow, to grant, to conform, to be accurate, to be standard

to freeze, to be cold

female phoenix, the yin counterpart of 鳳 (male phoenix)

ominous, unfortunate, evil, bad, cruel

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冓

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Usage in Korean

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