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 (yong, “in all, at all times, ever before”) and Tibetan ཡོངས (yongs, “all, whole”).

眾

1. masses; people; multitude; crowd; everyone
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) everything; all matters
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) all the government officials
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) soldier; army; troops
5. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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

     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。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     孟子曰：「广土众民，君子欲之，所乐不存焉。」 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

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

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

8. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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

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

9. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) various; different
10. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) 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. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) glutinous millet

• “眾”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 , editor (2022), “众”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 311.

(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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