众

See also: 眾, 衆, and 㐺

众 U+4F17, 众 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F17 ← 伖 [U+4F16] CJK Unified Ideographs 优 → [U+4F18]

Translingual

Stroke order

Traditional	眾
Simplified	众
Japanese	衆
Korean	衆

Han character

众 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人人人 (OOO), four-corner 8088, composition ⿱𠆢从)

Derived characters

• 閦(𬮥), 𬾀, 𪭮, 𨹊

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1545, character 6
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 453
• Dae Jaweon: page 204, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 117, character 7
• Unihan data for U+4F17

Chinese

Glyph origin

Triplication of 人 (“person”).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 众 – see 眾 (“masses; people; multitude; crowd; everyone; everything; all matters; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 眾).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 众 – see 乑 (“appearance of crowd standing”). (This character is a variant form of 乑).

Japanese

Kanji

众

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. a crowd, a multitude
2. the masses, the public

Readings

• On (unclassified): ぎん (gin)、ごん (gon)
• Kun: おおい (ōi, 众い)