Kanji Detail for 衆 - "many, crowd, people"

衆

Jōyō Kanji
Kyōiku Kanji

JLPT N1

ES grade 6

Meaning
衆 means "many, crowd, people."
1. Many - Numerous; a large number.
2. Crowd - A multitude; the masses.
3. People - The public; common folk.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

masses; great numbers; multitude; populace

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

multitude, crowd; masses, public

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

variant of 眾|众[zhong4]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

multitude, crowd; the public
Onyomi

shu(しゅ)
Kunyomi

oo.i(おおい)
Strokes

12 strokes
Radical

血 (chi・chihen)
Related Keywords
many numerous crowd multitude masses people public folk populace congregation assembly gathering group audience majority common general widespread collective plurality

警官たちは群衆をおしとどめた。
The police held the crowd back.
その歌は大衆に流行した。
The song caught on with the public.
多くの聴衆がいた。
We had a large audience.
彼らは群衆の中にトムを見つけた。
They found tom in the crowd.
雨のため、コンサートの聴衆は少なかった。
Because of the rain , the audience at the concert was small.
群衆は静かになった。
The crowd calmed down.
コンサートの聴衆は多かった。
There was a large audience at the concert.
私たちは群衆の中で彼を見失ってしまった。
We lost sight of him in the crowd.
群衆の中に彼を捜そうとしても無駄だ。
It is of no use to try to find him in the crowd.
聴衆はとても多かった。
The audience was very large.