群

See also: 羣

群	U+7FA4, 群 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FA4

← 羣
[U+7FA3]

CJK Unified Ideographs

羥 →
[U+7FA5]

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

Mandarin
(Pinyin): qún (qun²)

(Zhuyin): ㄑㄩㄣˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): kwan⁴
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): khiùn
Min Nan
(Hokkien, POJ): kûn

(Teochew, Peng'im): kung⁵
Wu (Wiktionary): jjyn (T3)

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: qún
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄩㄣˊ
  - Wade–Giles: ch'ün²
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyun
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰyn³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: kwan⁴
  - Yale: kwàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: kwan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: kuen⁴
  - IPA ^(key): /kʷʰɐn²¹/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: khiùn
  - Hakka Romanization System: kiunˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: kiun²
  - IPA: /kʰi̯un¹¹/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kûn
  - Tâi-lô: kûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kuun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /kun²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kun²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /kun¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /kun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kun²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: kung⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: khûng
  - IPA ^(key): /kʰuŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Shanghainese)
  - Wiktionary: jjyn (T3)
  - IPA ^(key): /d̥͡ʑʏɲ²³/

Middle Chinese: /ɡɨun/▼

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

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter–Sagart): /*[ɡ]ur/

(Zhengzhang): /*ɡlun/

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

group; crowd
flock; herd; pack
(～母) (phonology) a Middle Chinese initial and the 'Phags-pa script letter ꡀ (k-)
(mathematics) group

CompoundsEdit

Derived terms from 群

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

ReadingsEdit

Go-on: ぐん (gun, Jōyō)
Kan-on: くん (kun)
Kun: むれる (mureru, 群れる, Jōyō); むら (mura, 群, Jōyō, uncommon); むれ (mure, 群れ, Jōyō); むらがる (muragaru)

CompoundsEdit

群 (ぐん)島 (とう) (guntō)

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

群 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji gun)

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

SuffixEdit

群 (hiragana ぐん, rōmaji -gun)

group of people, animals, etc.

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

叢
簇

NounEdit

群 (hiragana むら, rōmaji mura)

a gathering

SuffixEdit

群 (hiragana むら, rōmaji -mura)

gathering

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

群 • (gun) (hangeul 군, revised gun, McCune–Reischauer kun, Yale kwun)

(무리^[1] 군): group, crowd, horde, herd, flock, folk, people, mob
(무리 질^[2] 군): to crowd, flock, gather, assemble
(많을 군): multitude

Usage notesEdit

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

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit

群 (quần, còn, quằn, cơn)

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[1] Compare Japanese Kun 群れ (むれ, mure, "crowd").

[2] Compare Japanese Kun 群れる (むれる, mureru, "to crowd").

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群

Contents

TranslingualEdit

Han characterEdit

ReferencesEdit

ChineseEdit

Glyph originEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

DefinitionsEdit

CompoundsEdit

JapaneseEdit

KanjiEdit

ReadingsEdit

CompoundsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

SuffixEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

SuffixEdit

See alsoEdit

KoreanEdit

HanjaEdit

Usage notesEdit

VietnameseEdit

Han characterEdit