丛
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cluster; collection; collection of books; thicket
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 一 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 叢
- Common rank
- #2,368
- Unicode
- U+4E1B
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Formation & memory
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Words with 丛
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 太阳神经丛 | solar plexus chakra | |
| 丛台区 | Congtai, a district of Handan City 邯鄲市|邯郸市[Han2 dan1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 丛林法则 | the law of the jungle | |
| 孔丛子 | the K'ung family Masters' anthology, collection of dialogues between Confucius and his dis… | |
| 人丛 | crowd of people | |
| 丛生 | growing as a thicket; overgrown; breaking out everywhere (of disease, social disorder etc) | |
| 花丛 | cluster of flowers; inflorescence; flowering shrub | |
| 百弊丛生 | All the ill effects appear. (idiom) | |
| 丛台 | see 叢臺區|丛台区[Cong2 tai2 Qu1] | |
| 丛林 | jungle; thicket; forest; Buddhist monastery | |
| 丛书 | a series of books; a collection of books | |
| 纤维丛 | fiber bundle (math.) | |
| 单丛 | Dancong, type of oolong tea | |
| 草丛 | underbrush | |
| 灌木丛 | shrub; shrubbery | |
| 丛集 | to crowd together; to pile up; to cluster; (book) collection; series | |
| 树丛 | thicket; undergrowth | |
| 丛谈 | discussion; forum | |
| 灌丛 | scrub; shrubland; undergrowth | |
| 蚕丛 | Can Cong, legendary creator of silk and sericulture |
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