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群

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

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TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

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)

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

ChineseEdit

trad. 群/羣
simp. 群

Glyph originEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

Rime
Character 群
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠云切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ɡɨun/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ɡiun/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ɡiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/gun/
Li
Rong 		/ɡiuən/
Wang
Li 		/ɡĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/gi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		qún
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

DefinitionsEdit

群

  1. group; crowd
  2. flock; herd; pack
  3. (～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡀ (k-)
  4. (mathematics) group
  5. (Cantonese) join in, participate, enter into partnership.
  6. (social media) group (of a group chat)
    入群、退群  ―  rùqún, tuìqún  ―  to enter a group, to leave a group
    群裡的dalao-們 / 群里的dalao-们  ―  qúnlǐ de dalaomen  ―  (please add an English translation of this example)

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 群

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

群

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

群 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji gun)

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

SuffixEdit

群 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji -gun)

  1. group of people, animals, etc.

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

群 (hiragana むら, rōmaji mura)

  1. a gathering

SuffixEdit

群 (hiragana むら, rōmaji -mura)

  1. gathering

See alsoEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

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 notesEdit

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

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

群 (quần, còn, quằn, cơn)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
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