組くみ

noun, noun, used as a suffix

class of students

Used for a school or kindergarten class. As a suffix in class names it may be read ぐみ, especially after a name such as さくら組.

• 弟おとうとは今年ことし、さくら組ぐみに入はいった。

  My younger brother entered the Sakura class this year.

noun, noun, used as a suffix, counter

group of people; team; crew; party

Used for people treated as one unit, including work teams, travel parties, and groups divided by role or timing. It can also function as a counter for such groups.

• 作さ業ぎょう員いんは二ふた組くみに分わかれて点てん検けんした。

  The workers split into two teams and carried out the inspection.

• 私わたしたちは現げん地ち集しゅう合ごう組ぐみとバス組ぐみに分わかれた。

  We split into the group meeting there and the group taking the bus.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

set; lot; bunch; assortment; deck or pack

Covers things grouped as one unit. As a counter, it is used for complete sets or assortments of items, including a deck or pack of cards.

• 来らい客きゃく用ようの食しょっ器きを二ふた組くみ買かった。

  I bought two sets of dishes for guests.

• このトランプは一ひと組くみそろっている。

  This deck of cards is complete.

noun, noun, used as a suffix

organized-crime syndicate; crime family

Used in the context of yakuza or organized crime; often appears in names of syndicates or when referring to a group by its organization.

• あの組くみは関かん西さいを拠きょ点てんとする暴ぼう力りょく団だんだ。

  That syndicate is an organized-crime group based in Kansai.

noun

typesetting; composition

Printing and publishing term for the way text is set or composed on a page. Modern writing also often uses more specific compounds such as 縦組み and 横組み.

• 校こう正せい前まえに、本ほん文ぶんの組くみを確かく認にんした。

  Before proofreading, I checked the typesetting of the body text.

• この本ほんは縦たて組ぐみで印いん刷さつされている。

  This book is printed in vertical composition.