gather, meet, congregate, swarm
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
It is Japanese. It usually shows up when the kanji stands alone or is followed by hiragana.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
土曜日の夜、サトウは台所でとても気をつかう作業に集中していました。
Doyoubi no yoru, Satou wa daidokoro de totemo ki wo tsukau sagyou ni shuuchuu shite imashita.
On Saturday night, Sato was in the kitchen, focused on something that needed a lot of care.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0