Translingual

Alternative forms

• 眾

Han character

衆 (radical 143 血+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿竹竹人 (HTHHO) or 竹廿人竹人 (HTOHO), four-corner 2723₂, composition ⿱血乑)

1. crowd, masses, public
2. many, majority

Derived characters

• 潨

Antonyms

• (many): 寡

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

Chinese

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

Compounds

• 衆議 (しゅうぎ) ‎(shūgi)
• 衆議院 (しゅうぎいん) ‎(shūgīn)
• 衆多 (しゅうた) ‎(shūta): many
• 衆兵 (しゅうへい) ‎(shūhei): many soldiers
• 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. mass; many people
2. majority

Korean

Hanja

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

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