群

See also: 羣

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

Translingual

Han character

群 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口廿手 (SRTQ) or 難尸口廿手 (XSRTQ), four-corner 1865₁, composition ⿰君羊)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 952, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28498
• Dae Jaweon: page 1396, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3134, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7FA4

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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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡlun) : phonetic 君 (OC *klun) + semantic 羊.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kul (“twenty; all”); cognate with 昆 (OC *kuːn, “swarming”), Tibetan ཀུན (kun, “all”), Burmese အကုန် (a.kun, “all”) (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 群

1. group; crowd; flock; herd; pack
2. multitude; many people
3. (group theory) group
4. (social media) group (of a group chat)

   入群、退群  ―  rùqún, tuìqún  ―  to join a group, to leave a group

   群裡的dalao們／群里的dalao们  ―  qúnlǐ de dàlǎomen  ―  all the great masters in the group

   發錯群／发错群  ―  fā cuò qún  ―  to post to the wrong group

5. numerous; many
6. Classifier for groups of people or animals: group of; flock of; herd of; pack of
7. (Cantonese, often derogatory) to hang out with
8. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 群 (MC gjun)
9. a surname

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (群):

• → Japanese: 群(ぐん) (gun)

References

• “群”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

群

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

Readings

• 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 ^†)、むれ (mure, 群れ, Jōyō)、むらがる (muragaru)

Compounds

• 群島(ぐんとう) (guntō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
群
ぐん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Noun

群(ぐん) • (gun) 

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

Suffix

群(ぐん) • (-gun) 

1. group of people, animals, etc.

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
群
むら Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 群 – see the following entry.

【むら】 [noun] 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping [affix] 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping Alternative spellings 叢, 簇

(This term, 群, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

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Korean

Hanja

群 (eum 군 (gun))

1. (무리 군): group, crowd, horde, herd, flock, folk, people, mob
2. (무리질 군): to crowd, flock, gather, assemble
3. (많을 군): multitude

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Vietnamese

Han character

群: Hán Nôm readings: quần, còn, quằn, cơn

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