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群

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

Chinese

trad. 群/羣
simp. 群

Glyph origin

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

Pronunciation

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.

Japanese

Kanji

群

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

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

Noun

群 ‎(hiragana むら, romaji mura)

  1. a gathering

Suffix

群 ‎(hiragana むら, romaji -mura)

  1. gathering

Korean

Hanja

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

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

Vietnamese

Han character

群 (quần, còn, quằn, cơn)

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