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See also: 众 and 衆
眾 U+773E, 眾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-773E
← 眽
[U+773D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 眿 →
[U+773F]

Translingual

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Han character

眾 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田中人人人 (WLOOO), four-corner 27232, composition ⿱罒⿲人亻人)

Derived characters

  • 潀, 𨖙, 𬌎, 𩅉

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 807, character 15
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23321
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1223, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2917, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+773E
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Chinese

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Glyph origin

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Characters in the same phonetic series (眾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pictogram (象形): a sun (日) above three humans (㐺) – people gathered or working under the sun.

The top, originally 日 (“sun”) in oracle script has been modified, in bronze script resembling instead a horizontal eye (early form of 目) – reinterpreted as “a crowd under someone’s gaze”, and now resembles 罒.

The bottom, originally three figures (人人人), uses various forms of 人 and 亻, with variation depending on font.

Etymology 1

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”) (Peiros and Starostin, 1996; STEDT); if so, cognate with Tibetan སྟོང (stong, “thousand”), Burmese ထောင် (htaung, “thousand”), Drung tu (“thousand”), Nuosu ꄙ (dur, “thousand”).

Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) compares this word with Classical Tibetan [script needed] (yong, “in all, at all times, ever before”) and Tibetan ཡོངས (yongs, “all, whole”).

Pronunciation

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Note:
  • chèng - vernacular;
  • chiòng - literary.

Definitions

眾

  1. masses; people; multitude; crowd; everyone
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) everything; all matters
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) all the government officials
  4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) soldier; army; troops
  5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) slave labour in agriculture
  6. (Buddhism) number of monks
  7. many; numerous
    Synonyms: 多, 許多 / 许多 (xǔduō)
    Antonym: 寡 (guǎ)
  8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) majority
  9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) various; different
  10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) general; common
  11. 32nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "legion" (𝌥)
  12. a surname

Compounds

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (衆 / 众):
  • → Japanese: 衆(しゅう) (shū)
  • → Vietnamese: chúng (眾)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Definitions

眾

  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) glutinous millet

References

  • “眾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
  • 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “众”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 311.
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Japanese

Kanji

眾

(Hyōgai kanji)

  1. Alternative form of 衆

Readings

Korean

Hanja

眾 • (jung) (hangeul 중, revised jung, McCune–Reischauer chung, Yale cwung)

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Vietnamese

Han character

眾: Hán Nôm readings: chúng

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