- 紛糾 — complication; confusion; becoming tangled (debate, issue)
- 糾明 — investigation to clarify the truth
- 糾弾 — condemnation; strong public criticism
- 糾合 — rally; unite; gather together
- 糾す — to question; to correct; to call someone to account
With the thread radical 糸, 糾 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).