群

See also: 羣
群 U+7FA4, 群
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7FA4
← 羣
[U+7FA3] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 羥 →
[U+7FA5]

Translingual

Han character

群 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口廿手 (SRTQ) or 難尸口廿手 (XSRTQ), four-corner 18651, composition ⿰君羊)

References
  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 952, character 26
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28498
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1396, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3134, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7FA4

Chinese
trad. 群/羣
simp. 群

Glyph origin
Characters in the same phonetic series (君) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涒 *l̥ʰuːn
麏 *krun
莙 *krun, *ɡrunʔ, *klun
輑 *kʰrun
蜠 *kʰrun, *ɡrunʔ
峮 *kʰrun
窘 *ɡrunʔ
僒 *ɡrunʔ
君 *klun
桾 *klun
宭 *klun, *ɡlun
鮶 *klun
捃 *kluns
群 *ɡlun
羣 *ɡlun
裙 *ɡlun
裠 *ɡlun
帬 *ɡlun
焄 *qʰlun
郡 *ɡluns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡlun) : phonetic 君 (OC *klun) + semantic 羊.

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kul (“twenty; all”); cognate with 昆 (OC *kuːn, “swarming”), Tibetan ཀུན (kun, “all”), Burmese အကုန် (a.kun, “all”) (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 群
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 群 (30)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 渠云切
Baxter gjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɡɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɡiun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɡiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /gun/
Li
Rong		 /ɡiuən/
Wang
Li		 /ɡĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /gi̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 qún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 kwan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 群
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 qún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ gjun ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɡ]ur/
English flock, herd, group

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 群
Reading # 1/1
No. 7295
Phonetic
component		 君
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 羣
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡlun/
Notes 羣字所注或體

Definitions

群

  1. group; crowd; flock; herd; pack
  2. multitude; many people
  3. (group theory) group
  4. (social media) group (of a group chat)
    入群、退群  ―  rùqún, tuìqún  ―  to join a group, to leave a group
    群裡的dalao們／群里的dalao们  ―  qúnlǐ de dàlǎomen  ―  all the great masters in the group
    發錯群／发错群  ―  fā cuò qún  ―  to post to the wrong group
  5. numerous; many
  6. Classifier for groups of people or animals: group of; flock of; herd of; pack of
  7. (Cantonese, often derogatory) to hang out with
  8. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 群 (MC gjun)
  9. a surname

Synonyms

Compounds

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (群):
  • → Japanese: 群(ぐん) (gun)

References

Japanese

Kanji
群

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
群
ぐん
Grade: 4
on’yomi

Noun

群(ぐん) • (gun) 

  1. a group of people, animals, etc.
  2. (group theory) a group

Suffix

群(ぐん) • (-gun) 

  1. group of people, animals, etc.

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
群
むら
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Definitions
For pronunciation and definitions of 群 – see the following entry.
【むら】
[noun] 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping
[affix] 群, 叢, 簇: gathering, grouping
Alternative spellings
叢, 簇
(This term, 群, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

群 (eumhun 무리 군 (muri gun))

  1. Hanja form? of 군 (“group, crowd, horde, herd, flock, folk, people, mob”). [1]
  2. (무리질[2] 군): to crowd, flock, gather, assemble
  3. (많을 군): multitude

References
  1. Compare Japanese Kun 群れ (むれ, mure, "crowd").
  2. Compare Japanese Kun 群れる (むれる, mureru, "to crowd").

Vietnamese

Han character

群: Hán Nôm readings: quần, còn, quằn, cơn

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