凑
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to gather together, pool or collect; to happen by chance; to move close to; to exploit an opportunity
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 冫 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 凑
- Common rank
- #2,266
- Unicode
- U+51D1
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
gather together · Heisig RSH #2597
ice + 奏 play an instrument
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 凑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高不凑低不就 | can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too p… | |
| 东拼西凑 | (idiom) to assemble from bits and pieces; to combine items from disparate sources | |
| 紧凑型车 | compact car model | |
| 七拼八凑 | assembled at random; a motley collection | |
| 紧凑渺子线圈 | Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) | |
| 凑手 | at hand; within easy reach; convenient; handy | |
| 凑数 | to serve as a stopgap; to make up a shortfall in the number of people | |
| 凑合 | to bring together; to make do in a bad situation; to just get by; to improvise; passable; … | |
| 不凑巧 | unluckily | |
| 凑成 | to put together; to make up (a set); to round up (a number to a convenient multiple); resu… | |
| 凑份子 | to pool resources (for a gift, project etc) | |
| 凑单 | to pad an order; to add extra items to an order so as to reach the minimum spend required … | |
| 凑热闹 | to join in the fun; to get in on the action; (fig.) to butt in; to create more trouble | |
| 凑足 | to scrape together enough (people, money etc) | |
| 凑钱 | to raise enough money to do sth; to pool money; to club together (to do sth) | |
| 杂凑 | to put together various bits; to knock sth together; hash (computing); see also 散列[san3 li… | |
| 凑近 | to approach; to lean close to | |
| 凑齐 | to collect all the bits to make a whole | |
| 紧凑 | compact; terse; tight (schedule) | |
| 凑付 | to put together hastily; to make do with |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 奏 — compare how they read.