眾

眾 (Kangxi radical 109, 目+6, 11 strokes, cangjie input 田中人人人 (WLOOO), four-corner 2723₂, composition ⿱罒⿲人亻人)

• 潀, 𨖙, 𬌎, 𩅉

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 807, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23321
• Dae Jaweon: page 1223, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2917, character 4
• Unihan data for U+773E

Historical forms of the character 眾
Shang	Western Zhou
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions

Pictogram (象形) : a sun (日) above three humans (㐺) – people gathered or working under the sun.

The top, originally 日 (“sun”) in oracle script has been modified, in bronze script resembling instead a horizontal eye (early form of 目) – reinterpreted as “a crowd under someone’s gaze”, and now resembles 罒.

The bottom, originally three figures (人人人), uses various forms of 人 and 亻, with variation depending on font.

Possibly from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-toŋ (“thousand”) (Peiros and Starostin, 1996; STEDT); if so, cognate with Tibetan སྟོང (stong, “thousand”), Burmese ထောင် (htaung, “thousand”), Drung tu (“thousand”), Nuosu ꄙ (dur, “thousand”).

Alternatively, Schuessler (2007) compares this word with Classical Tibetan [script needed] (yong, “in all, at all times, ever before”) and Tibetan ཡོངས (yongs, “all, whole”).

眾

1. masses; people; multitude; crowd; everyone
2. ^† everything; all matters
3. ^† all the government officials
4. ^† soldier; army; troops
5. ^† slave labour in agriculture
6. (Buddhism) number of monks
7. many; numerous

   Synonyms: 多, 許多／许多 (xǔduō)

   Antonym: 寡 (guǎ)

   • 眾天使都站在寶座和眾長老並四活物的周圍，在寶座前，面伏於地，敬拜神 [MSC, trad.]
     众天使都站在宝座和众长老并四活物的周围，在宝座前，面伏于地，敬拜神 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 啟示錄 (Revelation) 7:11

     Zhòng tiānshǐ dōu zhàn zài bǎozuò hé zhòng zhǎnglǎo bìng sì huówù de zhōuwéi, zài bǎozuò qián, miàn fú yú dì, jìngbài Shén [Pinyin]

     And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God

   • 孟子曰：「廣土眾民，君子欲之，所樂不存焉。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     孟子曰：「广土众民，君子欲之，所乐不存焉。」 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Mèngzǐ yuē: “Guǎng tǔ zhòng mín, jūnzǐ yù zhī, suǒ yuè bù cún yān.” [Pinyin]

     Mencius said, 'Wide territory and a numerous people are desired by the superior man, but what he delights in is not here.'

8. ^† majority

   • 欲戰者可謂眾矣 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     欲战者可谓众矣 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Commentary of Zuo, c. 4^th century BCE

     yù zhàn zhě kě wèi zhòng yǐ [Pinyin]

     Those who desire to fight can be said to form the majority.

9. ^† various; different
10. ^† general; common
11. 32nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "legion" (𝌥)
12. a surname

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

眾

1. ^† glutinous millet

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. Alternative form of 衆

• Go-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}; す (su)^{←す (su, historical)}
• Kan-on: しゅう (shū)^{←しう (siu, historical)}
• Kun: おおい (ōi, 眾い)^{←おほい (ofoi, 眾い, historical)}
• Nanori: とも (tomo); ひろ (hiro); もり (mori); もろ (moro)

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

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眾: Hán Nôm readings: chúng

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