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群

qún

group, flock

Phonosemantic compound. 羊 represents the meaning and 君 represents the sound.

Components
君 sound component

君  Sound component

jūn

  

ruler

羊 meaning component

羊  Meaning component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

群 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
群 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
群 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
群 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
群 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

群  

qún

(same as U+7FA3 羣) group, crowd, multitude, mob; group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc

群 (羣) 

qún

variant of 群[qún]

Most common words with 群
Freq.
Word
Meaning

群

group

群众

mass

人群

crowd

群体

community

群岛

archipelago

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ur

gjun

qún

flock, herd, group


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 41.4224% of movies

1004th most common character in movies

570th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7FA4

Shuowen

“羣，輩也。从羊，君聲。”


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