群

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See also: 羣
群 U+7FA4, 群
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FA4
← 羣
[U+7FA3]		 CJK Unified Ideographs 羥 →
[U+7FA5]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

trad. 群/羣
simp. 群

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (君) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涒 l̥ʰuːn
麏 krun
莙 krun, *ɡrunʔ, *klun
輑 kʰrun
蜠 kʰrun, *ɡrunʔ
峮 kʰrun
窘 ɡrunʔ
僒 ɡrunʔ
君 klun
桾 klun
宭 klun, *ɡlun
鮶 klun
捃 kluns
群 ɡlun
羣 ɡlun
裙 ɡlun
裠 ɡlun
帬 ɡlun
焄 qʰlun
郡 ɡluns

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m-)kul (“twenty, all”).

Pronunciation[edit]

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[edit]

群

  1. group, crowd
  2. flock, herd, pack, etc.
  3. # (～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡀ (k-)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 群

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

群

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

群 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji gun)

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

Suffix[edit]

群 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji -gun)

  1. group of people, animals, etc.

Etymology 2[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

群 (hiragana むら, rōmaji mura)

  1. a gathering

Suffix[edit]

群 (hiragana むら, rōmaji -mura)

  1. gathering

See also[edit]

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

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

Usage notes[edit]

  1. ^ Compare Japanese Kun 群れ (むれ, mure, "crowd").
  2. ^ Compare Japanese Kun 群れる (むれる, mureru, "to crowd").

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

群 (quần, còn, quằn, cơn)

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