纠
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to gather together; to investigate; to entangle; to correct
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 糸 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 糾
- Common rank
- #2,684
- Unicode
- U+7EA0
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 纠 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
To connect 丩 threads 纟; 丩 also provides the pronunciation
Components 纟 丩
How to remember it
entangle · Heisig RSH #2560
thread + cornucopia
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 纠
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 纠缠不清 | hopelessly muddled; impossible to unravel | |
| 量子纠缠 | quantum entanglement (physics) | |
| 纠合 | gathering; a get-together | |
| 纠正 | to correct; to make right | |
| 纠结 | to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with); twisted; tangled; confused; to … | |
| 纠集 | to gather together; to muster | |
| 弹纠 | to accuse; to impeach | |
| 纠弹 | to censure; to denounce; to impeach | |
| 纠众 | to muster; to gather a crowd | |
| 纠察 | to maintain order; steward (policing a meeting) | |
| 纠偏 | to correct an error | |
| 纠错 | to correct an error | |
| 纠葛 | entanglement; dispute | |
| 纠缠 | to be in a tangle; to nag | |
| 纠纷 | dispute |