眾

See also: 众, 衆, and 𝌥
眾 U+773E, 眾
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-773E
← 眽
[U+773D] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 眿 →
[U+773F]

Translingual

Traditional 眾
Shinjitai 衆
Simplified 众

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

trad. 眾/衆
simp. 众*
alt. forms 乑
㐺
𥅫
𠱧
𠱦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (眾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
潨 *zloːŋ, *zluːŋ, *tjuŋ
眾 *tjuŋ, *tjuŋs

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.

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • chèng - vernacular;
  • chiòng - literary.
Rime
Character 眾
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 之仲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨuŋH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiuŋH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiuŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuwŋH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiuŋH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭuŋH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯uŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhòng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 眾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhòng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyuwngH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*tuŋ-s/
English numerous

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 眾
Reading # 2/2
No. 17491
Phonetic
component		 衆
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 衆
Old
Chinese		 /*tjuŋs/
Notes 甲文象日下三人，金文或改目下，表衆人在監督下勞作

Definitions

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
    Antonyms: 寡 (guǎ)
  8. † various; different
  9. † general; common
  10. 32nd tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "legion"

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Rime
Character 眾
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 職戎切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuwŋ/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕiuŋ/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhōng
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 眾
Reading # 1/2
No. 17489
Phonetic
component		 衆
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 終
Old
Chinese		 /*tjuŋ/

Definitions

眾

  1. † glutinous millet

Japanese

Kanji

眾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

眾 (chúng)

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