衆

See also 众, and 眾

Translingual

Alternative forms

• 眾

Etymology

Variant of 眾, with bottom replaced by 乑 (similar to unrelated 衣 and 𠂢).

Current form is graphically 血 + 乑 (“crowd, multitude”) – bottom is originally 3 people, hence “crowd”, though top is unrelated to 血, being originally 罒 (“network”).

Han character

衆 (radical 143 血+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿竹竹人 (HTHHO), 竹廿人竹人 (HTOHO))

1. multitude, crowd
2. masses, public

Derived characters

• 潨

References

• KangXi: page 1107, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33981
• Dae Jaweon: page 1569, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3051, character 14
• Unihan data for U+8846

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Japanese

Kanji

衆 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: しゅう (shū), しゅ (shu)
• Kun: おおい (ooi)

Compounds

• 衆議 (しゅうぎ, shūgi)
• 衆議院 (しゅうぎいん, shūgiin)
• 公衆 (こうしゅう, kōshū, “general public, public use”)
• 大衆 (たいしゅう, taishū, “general public”)

Noun

衆 (hiragana しゅう, romaji shū)

1. many people

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Korean

Hanja

衆 (hangeul 중, revised jung, McCune-Reischauer chung, Yale cwung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

衆 (simplified 众, pinyin zhòng (zhong4), Wade-Giles chung⁴)