综 zōng to sum up
怎么记住“综”: 纟 silk + 宗 ancestry = to sum up. At the family reunion grandpa lays a red silk ribbon across the chart of their ancestry and tries to sum up five hundred years in one sentence.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
综 = 纟 silk + 宗 ancestry
- 纟 silk meaning
- 宗 ancestry sound
At the family reunion grandpa lays a red silk ribbon across the chart of their ancestry and tries to sum up five hundred years in one sentence.
How it came to be
Silk gives the meaning and the right part the sound.
用法
- 综 is a bound character that only really appears in one high-frequency word: 综合 zōnghé, meaning 'comprehensive/to integrate,' as in 综合能力 (zōnghé nénglì) overall ability.
- 综艺 zōngyì means 'variety show' (TV genre): a fixed modern media term.
- 错综复杂 cuòzōng-fùzá is a set idiom for a tangled, complicated situation, used in writing or serious discussion, not casual chat.