群

群 (Kangxi radical 123, 羊+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 尸口廿手 (SRTQ) or 難尸口廿手 (XSRTQ), four-corner 1865₁, composition ⿰君羊)

• 𡀳, 𡑱, 𪷧, 𤐆, 𫲳, 𨆤, 𨮉, 𬚀, 𤺽, 𦏓, 𭁝, 𱻖

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 952, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28498
• Dae Jaweon: page 1396, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3134, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7FA4

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɡlun): phonetic 君 (OC *klun) + semantic 羊 – a herd of sheep; a group.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-kul (“twenty; all”); cognate with 昆 (OC *kuːn, “swarming”), Tibetan ཀུན (kun, “all”), Burmese အကုန် (a.kun, “all”) (Benedict, 1972; STEDT).

群

1. group; crowd; flock; herd; pack
2. multitude; many people
3. (group theory) group
4. (social media) group (of a group chat)

   入群、退群  ―  rùqún, tuìqún  ―  to join a group, to leave a group

   群裡的dalao們／群里的dalao们  ―  qúnlǐ de dàlǎomen  ―  all the great masters in the group

   發錯群／发错群  ―  fā cuò qún  ―  to post to the wrong group

5. numerous; many
6. Classifier for groups of people or animals: group of; flock of; herd of; pack of
7. (Cantonese, often derogatory) to hang out with
8. (～母) (Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 群 (MC gjun)
9. a surname

• (group of people): 幫子／帮子 (bāngzi), 伙 (huǒ)

• “群”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji)

• Go-on: ぐん (gun, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: くん (kun)
• Kun: むれる (mureru, 群れる, Jōyō)、むら (mura, 群, Jōyō ^†)、むれ (mure, 群れ, Jōyō)、むらがる (muragaru, 群がる)

• 群島(ぐんとう) (guntō)
• 群雄(ぐんゆう) (gun'yū)
• 群青(ぐんじょう) (gunjō)

• (Tokyo) ぐん [gúꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɡɯ̟̃ɴ]

群(ぐん) • (gun) 

1. a group of people, animals, etc.
2. (group theory) a group

群(ぐん) • (-gun) 

1. group of people, animals, etc.

群 (eumhun 무리 군 (muri gun))

1. hanja form^? of 군 (“group, crowd, horde, herd, flock, folk, people, mob”) ^[1]
2. (무리질^[2] 군): to crowd, flock, gather, assemble
3. (많을 군): multitude

群: Hán Việt readings: quần^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}
群: Nôm readings: còn^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}, quằn^[1][2][3][4], cơn^[3]

1. chữ Nôm form of còn (“to remain; to be left; to still have or exist”)
   • 1820, 阮攸 [Nguyễn Du], compiled by Liễu Văn Đường, 傳翹 [Truyện Kiều], published 1866, line 8:

     風(Phong)情(tình)固(có)錄(lục)群(còn)傳(truyền)史(sử)撑(xanh)

     I started reading a long-ago tale of love and romance.