qún
group, flock
Phonosemantic compound. 羊 represents the meaning and 君 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[g]ur | gjun | qún | flock, herd, group |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 41.4224% of movies
1004th most common character in movies
570th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7FA4 |
Shuowen | “羣,輩也。从羊,君聲。” |
Sources
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