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Chinese
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crowd; flock; group
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statesman; vassal; courtier statesman; vassal; courtier; minister; official |
| trad. (群臣/羣臣)
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群/羣
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臣
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| simp. (群臣)
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群
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臣
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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群
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臣
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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qún
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chén
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ gjun ›
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‹ dzyin ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ur/
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/*i/
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| English
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flock, herd, group
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slave, subject
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Noun
群臣
- large number of officials
羣臣百有餘人皆絕去其冠纓而上火，卒盡懽而罷。
群臣百有余人皆绝去其冠缨而上火，卒尽欢而罢。 - From: c. 77 B.C.E., 劉向 (Liu Xiang), 《說苑》 (Garden of Stories), chapter 6
- Qúnchén bǎi yǒuyú rén jiē jué qù qí guānyīng ér shànghuǒ, zú jìn huān ér bà.
- After more than 100 ministers removed the cords which held their headpieces in place, all of the candles were relit. All of the king's subjects were happy, and that was the end of it.
Synonyms
Descendants
Japanese
Noun
群臣 • (gunshin)
- a large number of retainers