Today’s second #kanji is #集, which is made of #ふるとり（隹） and 木. Its original form was 雧 (= 3 x 隹 + 木), so it indicates many birds (隹s) are “gathering” on a tree. Can you read all the examples?
Meaning: to gather, collection
Reading: シュウ（ジュウ）、あつ、つど
集会（シュウカイ）: a meeting, a gathering, an assembly, a congregation
集中（シュウチュウ）: concentration, a focusing (of energies), centralisation
歌集（カシュウ）: a collection of tanka poems, a songbook
編集（ヘンシュウ）: editing, compilation, [movie] cutting
募集（ボシュウ）: recruitment, invitaion, selection
集（あつ）まり: a gathering, a meeting, an asembly, a party
集（あつ）まる: to gather, to come together, to meet; to be collected, to be gathered; to converge
集（あつ）める: to collect, to recruit; to concentrate
集（つど）い: a gathering, a get-together
集（つど）う: to meet, to gather
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