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Kanji for Gather
The kanji for “gather” is 集, read shuu and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
gather
To bring people together.
The Man'yoshu (万葉集), meaning "Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves," is Japan's oldest surviving poetry anthology from the 8th century.
12 strokes On reading シュウ (shuu) Kun reading あつまる、あつめる、つどう (atsumaru, atsumeru, tsudou) JLPT N3
Dictionary meanings: gather, meet, congregate, swarm, flock
Readings used for names on Nazuke: atsu, shuu
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