Taxonomy of meanings for 聚:　　

  • 聚 jù (OC: sɡoʔ MC: dzio) 慈庾切 上 廣韻：【衆也共也斂也説文㑹也邑落云聚慈𢈔切二 】
    • GATHER
      • viactmostly of persons, but occasionally also of things like insects: assemble
      • vtoNassemble persons or things; amass; gather around oneself
      • nabprocesscoalescence
      • vtoNpassivebe amassed in one place
      • vtoNchangeto become assembled; to become dense and abundant (of population);
      • vtoNfigurativegather (resentful forces)
      • vtoNN=placegather in (a place)
      • npluralconglomerations
      • vttoN1.+N2collect N1 in place N2
      • vadNpassiveaccumulated
      • vt(oN)gather the contextually determinate objects N
      • vtoNgather aroundCH
      • vtoNmiddleto get accumulated, accumulateLZ
      • vttoN1.+prep+N2N2=placegather N1 in the place N2DS
      • feature>MANY
          • grammaticalised>TOGETHER
            • object men: causative>RALLY
              • vt+prep+Ngather around, rally
              • ability to>POWER
                • nHF 8.8.3: concentrations of power (in a state)
          • and integrate>COMBINE
            • vtoNmathematical termCHEMLA 2003:
            • nabactcombination
            • refining>CONCENTRATE
              • vtoNconcentrate 聚精會神
          • gathering of people>VILLAGE
              • large>CITY
                • nSHJI, Wudibenji: small city
            • officially, by state>CONFISCATE
              • vtoNcollect N as regular tax payments from one's subjects
          • LIMP
          • 聚 jù (OC: sɡos MC: dzio) 才句切 去 廣韻：【又秦雨切 】

            Additional information about 聚

            說文解字: 【聚】，會也。从乑、取聲。邑落云聚。 〔小徐本作「一曰：邑落曰聚。」〕 【才句切】

              Criteria
            • ENCYCLOPAEDIA

              1. The current classical Chinese word for an encyclopaedia is 類書 "sub-classified book" a term that occurs already in 前漢記 according to DCD.

              NOTE:

              The earliest works of an encyclopaedic nature are HN and LSCQ. From Yìwénlèijù 藝文類聚 onwards China has produced a remarkable range of encyclopaedias in the narrower sense.

            • GATHER

              1. The most current general term for the temporary assembling of things is jù 聚 (ant. sàn 散 "spread") which can refer to the gathering together of what does not necessarily belong together and of what is not necessarily of the same kind and what will disperse or be dispersed.

              2. Liǎn 斂 (ant. sàn 散 "spread") refers to a human action of assembling things, prototypically taxes or the like, for future use.

              3. Shí 拾 "pick up" and qǔ 取 "pick, take" can come to refer to the gathering together for future use articles of common use, but occasionally these words can also take abstract objects in which case the nuance of gathering these for future use is retained.

              Word relations
            • Ant: (GATHER)散/SCATTER The current standard word for scattering anything in any way is sàn 散.
            • Assoc: (GATHER)收/HARVEST Shōu 收 regularly refers to the harvest as what is garnered and collected for future use.