The kanji 衆: meaning, readings and stroke order
衆
- Meaning
- crowd, people
- On reading
- シュウ shuu、シュ* shu
- Kun reading
- —
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 血 blood
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- đám đông, quần chúng (chúng)
- Japanese
- おおぜいの ひと。
- Korean
- 무리, 많은 사람 (중)
- Chinese
- 大众、群众 (众)
Readings, words and example sentences
シュウ shuu · on reading
観衆
audience, crowd
会場の 観衆が 立ち上がりました。
The crowd at the venue stood up.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.