糾

音読おんよみ: キュウ

訓読くんよみ: ただ-す

画数かくすう: 8

部首ぶしゅ: いとへん(糸)

Meaning

Investigate / Question / Correct / Entangle

  • 紛糾ふんきゅう — complication; confusion; becoming tangled (debate, issue)
  • 糾明きゅうめい — investigation to clarify the truth
  • 糾弾きゅうだん — condemnation; strong public criticism
  • 糾合きゅうごう — rally; unite; gather together
  • ただす — to question; to correct; to call someone to account

With the thread radical , carries the image of threads getting twisted and pulled together. From there it naturally extends to: tangled situations (紛糾), and also straightening things out by questioning or correcting (糾す / 糾明).

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