Chinese Character Wiki

羣

qún

group, flock

Variant of 群.

Evolution

羣 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
羣 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
羣 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
羣 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Definitions

羣  

qún

(same as U+7FA4 群) group, crowd, multitude, mob

群 (羣) 

qún

variant of 群[qún]

Most common words with 羣
Freq.
Word
Meaning

群

group

群众

mass

人群

crowd

群体

community

群岛

archipelago

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]ur

gjun

qún

flock, herd, group


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 41.4224% of movies

1004th most common character in movies

570th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+7FA3

Shuowen

“羣，輩也。从羊，君聲。”


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