Word Meaning 粋を集める

すいをあつめる sui o atsumeru

粋を集める is read as すいをあつめる (sui o atsumeru) and means to collect the best.

Meaning

English

  1. to collect the best
  2. to put together the cream of the crop

Reading

Kana

すいをあつめる

Romaji

sui o atsumeru

Stroke Sequence

5 Characters • 28 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 123847 Priority T

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

いき

familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)

粋が身を食う

すいがみをくう

too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes)

粋人

すいじん

man about town

粋な人

すいなひと

man of well-cultivated tastes

粋作り

いきづくり

stylishness (esp. of a woman working at a nightclub, etc.)

集める

あつめる

to collect

集まる

あつまる

to gather

集る

たかる

to extort

寄り集まる

よりあつまる

to gather together

一身に集める

いっしんにあつめる

to become the focus of (attention, sympathy, hope, etc.)

密集

みっしゅう

crowding together

純粋

じゅんすい

pure