漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People
衆: masses, great numbers
Also: multitude, populace
JLPT N112 strokesGrade 6Your ink: 白 Not met
血 carries the meaning · 亻 is drawn in
12 strokes
One reading, and the words that use it
シュウshuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 民衆みんしゅうpeople, populace, masses
- 大衆たいしゅうgeneral public
- 公衆こうしゅうthe public
- 観衆かんしゅうspectators, onlookers
- 聴衆ちょうしゅうaudience, attendance, hearers
- 群衆ぐんしゅうgroup, crowd, throng, mob
- 衆議院しゅうぎいんLower House, House of Reps.
Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.
- アメリカ合衆国がっしゅうこくthe United States of America
Also read シュ, おおい, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Variant of 眾, with the top component 罒 replaced by 血, and the bottom component 𫡑 replaced by 乑.
Source: Wiktionary, 衆 (rev. 92925495), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Originally contained blood (血) + many (眾). It referred to a large group of people bound together by a blood oath or a common ancestry.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 众 · traditional, as in Japanese · zhòng
Japan keeps the traditional form 衆; mainland China simplifies it to 众.
- Simplified
- 众 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 衆 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhòng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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