Kanji1 / 12
衆 kanji
masses, great numbers, multitude, populace
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
シュウシュ
Kun readings
おおい
Variant forms
眾Words with 衆
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —衆評public opinion
- —衆愚the vulgar masses
- —衆意public opinion
- —衆寡the many and the few
- —衆論public opinion
- —衆議mass meeting
- —男衆men; manservant; male attendants to an actor
- —衆庶the masses; common people
- —衆説various theories
- —衆多multitude; great numbers
- —有衆the multitudes; the people
- —衆道male homosexuality; pederasty
- —僧衆large number of priests
- —町衆important local businessmen (in the Muromachi period); local leaders
- —多衆crowd (of people); large group of people
- —番衆guard (of a daimyo, emperor, etc.)
- —衆俗the masses; ordinary people
- —女衆women; maidservant
- —衆口common talk; talk of the town; words of many people
- —衆参House of Representatives and House of Councillors; both houses of the Diet