众

See also: 眾, 衆, and 㐺
众 U+4F17, 众
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F17
← 伖
[U+4F16] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 优 →
[U+4F18]

Translingual
Stroke order
6 strokes
Traditional 眾
Simplified 众
Japanese 衆
Korean 衆

Han character

众 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人人人 (OOO), four-corner 8088, composition ⿱𠆢从)

Derived characters

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 96, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 453
  • Dae Jaweon: page 204, character 8
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 117, character 7
  • Unihan data for U+4F17

Chinese

Glyph origin

Triplication of 人 (“person”).

Etymology 1
For pronunciation and definitions of 众 – see 眾 (“masses; people; multitude; crowd; everyone; everything; all matters; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 眾).
Notes:

Etymology 2
For pronunciation and definitions of 众 – see 乑 (“appearance of crowd standing”).
(This character is a variant form of 乑).

Japanese

Kanji
众

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. a crowd, a multitude
  2. the masses, the public

Readings
  • On (unclassified): ぎん (gin); ごん (gon)
  • Kun: おおい (ōi, 众い)
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