叢
plexus, clump of bushes, thicket
Readings
On'yomi
- ソウ
- ス
Kun'yomi
- くさむら
- むら.がる
- むら
Meaning
叢 centers on dense clustering: a thicket of bushes, a clump of plants, or any tangled plexus of things growing or gathering together.
Most common words using 叢
20 of 30- 叢雲むらくも
gathering clouds; group of clouds
- 竹叢たかむら
bamboo grove
- 叢そう
plexus; rete
- 叢書そうしょ
series (of publications); library (set of books)
- 叢立ちむらだち
standing in a group; standing up in unison
- 一叢ひとむら
copse; crowd; herd
- 万緑叢中紅一点ばんりょくそうちゅうこういってん
one red flower standing out in a sea of green vegetation; one item of quality standing out among many; one woman among many men
- 叢時雨むらしぐれ
autumn shower; fall shower
- 叢林そうりん
dense wood; thick wood
- 叢氷そうひょう
pack ice
- 叢生そうせい
dense growth; thick growth; gregarious growth; growing in clusters
- 叢祠そうし
small shrine in a thicket
- 叢考そうこう
miscellaneous studies
- 叢談そうだん
collection of stories
- 叢雲剣むらくものつるぎ
Murakumo no Tsurugi (alternate name for Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi; the sword of the Imperial regalia)
- 天叢雲剣あまのむらくものつるぎ
Ama-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi (sword; one of the three Imperial regalia); Ame-no-Murakumo no Tsurugi
- 太陽神経叢たいようしんけいそう
solar plexus
- 微生物叢びせいぶつそう
microbiota
- 木叢こむら
thicket
- 杉叢すぎむら
thicket of cedar trees
Study
Etymology
叢 combines 丵 (a dense cluster of plants) with 取, which likely contributes a phonetic element. The overall idea is a thicket or clump.
Meaning mnemonic
The top 丵 looks like a tangled mass of vegetation, and the bottom 取 suggests gathering. Picture a dense clump of bushes so thick you have to take hold and pull them apart.
Reading mnemonic
For ソウ, imagine a dense thicket so overgrown that you need to sew a path through it: sew -> ソウ, and the tangled bushes form a plexus.