雜 (zá) — mixed, assorted, miscellaneous; verb

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TSUMUGU · A2 (est.) · 字

雜 character · A2 (est.)

雜＝衣＋集

ㄗㄚˊ · zá

adj — mixed, assorted, miscellaneous; verb — to mingle

字源 FORM — what the parts do

衣義a garment — split apart, its top sits up left, its skirt 𧘇 drops to the bottom-left

集聲jí — gives the sound, worn from jí to záa bird (隹) on a tree (木) — gathered together

{z,j}ITjí → zá — the {z,j} crossing; tone shifts too

A garment (衣, torn open across the left) of five colors gathered (集) into one cloth — 集 jí lends the sound, worn to zá. From mixed threads comes everything jumbled together: 複雜、雜誌.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

鳥群落在樹上（集），五顏六色，全縫進一件衣（衣）裡。

Birds settling on a tree (集), every color among them, all sewn into one garment (衣).

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意 · Meanings

(本義)五彩相會— many colors meeting in one cloth

→混雜、複雜— mixed, tangled together常用

⇒雜誌、雜貨— assorted — magazine, sundry goods常用

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension