衆

See also: 众 and 眾
衆 U+8846, 衆
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8846
← 衅
[U+8845] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 衇 →
[U+8847]

Translingual
Japanese 衆
Simplified 众
Traditional 眾

Glyph origin

Variant of 眾, with bottom component ⿲人亻人 replaced by 乑 (similar to unrelated 衣 and 𠂢).

Current form is graphically 血 + 乑 (“crowd, multitude”) – bottom is originally 3 people, hence “crowd”, though top is unrelated to 血, being originally 罒 (“eye”).

Usage notes

The Kangxi dictionary lists 衆 as the unorthodox form (俗字) of 眾. However, 衆 is the preferred form used in Japanese kanji.

Han character

衆 (radical 143, 血+6, 12 strokes, cangjie input 竹廿竹竹人 (HTHHO) or 竹廿人竹人 (HTOHO), four-corner 27232, composition ⿱血乑)

Derived characters

References
  • KangXi: page 1107, character 16
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33981
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1569, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3051, character 14
  • Unihan data for U+8846

Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of 衆 – see 眾 (“masses; people; multitude; crowd; everyone; everything; all matters; etc.”).
(This character, 衆, is a variant form of 眾.)

Japanese

Kanji
衆

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds
Compounds

Etymology
Kanji in this term
衆
しゅう
Grade: 6
kan’on

From Middle Chinese 眾 (MC t͡ɕɨuŋH).

Pronunciation

Noun

衆 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji shū)

  1. mass; many people
  2. majority
    Antonym: 寡 (ka)

Suffix

衆 (hiragana しゅう, rōmaji -shū)

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References
  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

衆 • (jung) (hangeul 중, revised jung, McCune–Reischauer chung, Yale cwung)

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