組

音読おんよみ: ソ

訓読くんよみ: くむ・くみ・くみひも

画数かくすう: 11

部首ぶしゅ: 糸（いとへん）

Meaning

Group / Class / Team

  • Basic forms
  • 組む — to make a pair; to form (a group/team); to assemble / base form
  • 組みます — (I) form; (I) assemble / masu form
  • 組んだ — formed; assembled / ta form
  • 組んで — form and …; please form / te-form
  • 組まない — don’t form; don’t assemble / negative form
  • 組めば — if (someone) forms; if you assemble / conditional
  • 組め・組みなさい — form!; assemble! / imperative
  • Other common forms
  • 組みたい — want to form; want to assemble / 〜たい form
  • 組める — can form; be able to assemble / potential
  • 組めた — was able to form / past potential
  • 組めない — cannot form; can’t assemble / negative potential
  • More
  • 組もう — let’s form; let’s assemble / 〜よう form
  • 組まなかった — didn’t form; didn’t assemble / past negative
  • 組んでいる — is forming; is assembling / progressive
組む（くむ） is a godan (5-dan) verb ending in む.
The stem shifts as endings are added: ま → み → ん, as in 組む・組みます・組んで.
  • 番組ばんぐみ — TV or radio program
  • 組合くみあい — association / union
  • 組立くみたて — assembly / construction
  • 組長くみちょう — group leader / boss
  • 組織そしき — organization / structure
  • 組成そせい — composition / formation
Compound - tap to expand
  • 組くみ込こむ — to build in; to incorporate
  • 組くみ合あわせる — to combine; to put together
  • 取とり組くむ — to tackle; to work seriously on
  • 組くみ伏ふせる — to pin down; to overpower

組 is made from 糸 (thread) and the sound element 且, showing threads woven or grouped together. It reflects the idea of joining, pairing, or organizing.

You'll see it in contexts like school classes, unions, teams, and even media programming.

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