EntryCommon
  1. Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb

    to gather; to crowd round; to swarm; to flock

    Usually written using kana alone

    捨てられたアイスのまわりにアリがウヨウヨたかっていた。
    The area around the melting ice cream was crawling with ants.
  2. to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to pester (someone for something); to bum; to cadge

    Usually written using kana alone

  3. to extort; to take (money) through intimidation

    Usually written using kana alone

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Characters in this word

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Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

gather, meet, congregate, swarm, flock

Kun
あつ.まるあつ.めるつど.う
On
シュウ
Strokes
12
Taught
Grade 3
JLPT
N4
Frequency
210 of 2500
Radical
short-tailed bird
WaniKani
Level 10

Built from

Used in names as

あつまり

Dictionary and index codes (34)
CodeReference
2-8-4SKIP code
8c4.2The Kanji Dictionary
2090.4Four corner code
2464deroo
96c6Unicode hex code
1-29-24JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5031Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
6500New Nelson (John Haig)
2771New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3445Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1772Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2413Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
559Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
601Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
168A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1779Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
279Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
41974Morohashi
309A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
436Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
442Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
243sakade
272Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
324henshall3
399Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
224crowley
224Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
3.8busy_people
1851Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
566Les Kanjis dans la tête (Yves Maniette)
ji2Pinyin reading
jibKorean reading
n4JLPT level (KANJIDIC2)
10WaniKani level