群

See also: 羣

Translingual

Han character

群 (radical 123 羊+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口廿手 (SRTQ) or X尸口廿手 (XSRTQ), four-corner 1865₁, composition ⿰君羊)

1. group, crowd, multitude, mob

References

• KangXi: page 952, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28498
• Dae Jaweon: page 1396, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3134, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7FA4

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Chinese

trad.		群/羣
simp.		群

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qún (qun²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): kwan⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khiùn
• Min Nan (POJ): kûn

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: qún
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄣˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ch'ün²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyun
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: kwan⁴
    • Yale: kwàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: kwan⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiùn
    • Hakka Romanization System: kiunˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: kiun²
    • IPA: /kʰi̯un¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kûn
    • Tâi-lô: kûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kuun
    • IPA (Taipei): /kun²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /kun¹³/

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• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[ɡ]ur/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡlun/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	群
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qún
Middle Chinese	‹ gjun ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɡ]ur/
English	flock, herd, group
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	群
Reading #	1/1
No.	7295
Phonetic component	君
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	羣
Old Chinese	/*ɡlun/
Notes	羣字所注或體

Definitions

群

1. group, crowd
2. flock, herd, pack, etc.

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Japanese

Kanji

群

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: ぐん (gun)
• Kan’on: くん (kun)
• Kun: むらがる (muragaru), むれる (mureru)

Compounds

• 群島 (ぐんとう) ‎(guntō)

Etymology 1

Noun

群 ‎(hiragana ぐん, romaji gun)

1. a group of people, animals, etc.
2. (group theory) a group

Suffix

群 ‎(hiragana ぐん, romaji -gun)

1. group of people, animals, etc.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• 叢
• 簇

Noun

群 ‎(hiragana むら, romaji mura)

1. a gathering

Suffix

群 ‎(hiragana むら, romaji -mura)

1. gathering

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Korean

Hanja

群 • ‎(gun) (hangeul 군, revised gun, McCune-Reischauer kun, Yale kwun)

1. (무리 군): group, crowd, horde, herd, flock, folk, people, mob
2. (무리질 군): to crowd, flock, gather, assemble
3. (많을 군): multitude

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Vietnamese

Han character

群 (quần, còn, quằn, cơn)

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