Hanja Analyzer
群

群 — gun

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
무리 군
Romanization
gun
English
group, crowd, multitude, mob
Mandarin
qún
Japanese on'yomi
グン, クン
Japanese kun'yomi
む.れる む.れ むら むら.がる
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#1,012 of 2,500
Strokes
13
Radical
羊 (123, 7 residual)
Phonetic component
君(군)
Unicode
U+7FA4

Parts that make up 群

  • 君 임금 군sound 지팡이를 쥔 손과 입다스리는 이. ‘군’ 계열의 소리
  • 羊 양 양 뿔이 굽은 양의 머리양, 그리고 좋고 아름다운 것

How 群 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 群 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 君, 羊.

Korean example words with 群

  • 군신群臣 Korean gloss: 많은 신하
  • 군중群衆 Korean gloss: 수많은 사람
  • 어군魚群 Korean gloss: 물고기의 떼
  • 군봉群峯 Korean gloss: 많은 산봉우리
  • 군속群俗 Korean gloss: 세상의 많은 사람
  • 군원群怨 Korean gloss: 여러 사람의 원망
  • 군학群鶴 Korean gloss: 무리를 이룬 많은 학
  • 일군一群 Korean gloss: 한 무리. 또는 한 패
  • 작군作群 Korean gloss: 무리를 지음. 또는 그 무리
  • 색군色群 Korean gloss: 같은 계열에 속하는 색의 무리
  • 군도群島 Korean gloss: 무리를 이루고 있는 크고 작은 섬들
  • 군웅群雄 Korean gloss: 같은 시대에 여기저기에서 일어난 영웅들

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 群

  • 群ぐん group; bunch; crowd
  • 群れむれ group; crowd; flock
  • 抜群ばつぐん outstanding; excellent; exceptional
  • 症候群しょうこうぐん syndrome
  • 群衆ぐんしゅう group (of people); crowd; horde
  • 群像ぐんぞう lively group (esp. of young people); dynamic bunch; group
  • 群島ぐんとう island group; archipelago
  • 一群いちぐん group; flock; crowd
  • 群落ぐんらく many communities (villages); cluster of plants
  • 大群たいぐん large crowd; large herd; large flock
  • 層群そうぐん (geol) group
  • 群がるむらがる to swarm; to gather

Characters sharing the phonetic 君

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “군” in Korean.

Other hanja read “군”

Other hanja with radical 羊

Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences