WORD DETAIL
召集
しょうしゅう
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Study notes
1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning
- Structure:
召集, readしょうしゅう, means assembling people by official authority or order. - Basic usage: It appears in formal contexts such as summoning soldiers or convening a parliament.
2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions
- Difference from 招集
招集has the same pronunciation and is widely used for calling people together.召集carries the sense of a summons under official authority, so identical pronunciation does not make the spellings freely interchangeable.

