| 湊 | [ coù ] to gather together, pool or collect, to happen by chance, to move close to, to exploit an opportunity |
| 湊付 | [ coù fu ] to put together hastily, to make do with |
| 湊份子 | [ coù fèn zi ] to pool resources (for a gift, project etc) |
| 湊合 | [ coù he ] to bring together, to make do in a bad situation, to just get by, to improvise, passable, not too bad |
| 湊巧 | [ coù ] fortuitously, luckily, as chance has it |
| 湊成 | [ coù chéng ] to put together, to make up (a set), to round up (a number to a convenient multiple), resulting in... |
| 湊手 | [ coù shoǔ ] at hand, within easy reach, convenient, handy |
| 湊數 | [ coù shù ] to serve as a stopgap, to make up a shortfall in the number of people |
| 湊熱鬧 | [ coù rè nao ] to join in the fun, to get in on the action, (fig.) to butt in, to create more trouble |
| 湊趣 | [ coù qù ] to comply in order to please others, to accommodate sb else's taste, to make fun of |
| 湊足 | [ coù zú ] to scrape together enough (people, money etc) |
| 湊近 | [ coù jìn ] to approach, to lean close to |
| 湊錢 | [ coù qián ] to raise enough money to do sth, to pool money, to club together (to do sth) |
| 湊齊 | [ coù qí ] to collect all the bits to make a whole |
| ⇒ 七拼八湊 | [ qī pīn bā coù ] assembled at random, a motley collection |
| ⇒ 不湊巧 | [ bù coù ] unluckily |
| ⇒ 拼湊 | [ pīn coù ] to assemble, to put together |
| ⇒ 緊湊 | [ jǐn coù ] compact, terse, tight (schedule) |
| ⇒ 緊湊型車 | [ jǐn coù xíng chē ] compact car model |
| ⇒ 緊湊渺子線圈 | [ jǐn coù zǐ xiàn quān ] Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) |
| ⇒ 雜湊 | [ zá coù ] to put together various bits, to knock sth together, hash (computing), see also 散列[san3 lie4] |
| ⇒ 高不湊低不就 | [ gaō bù coù dī bù jiù ] can't reach the high or accept the low (idiom); not good enough for a high post, but too proud to take a low one |