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
- —子供衆children; child; young male prostitute; prostitute
- —大衆的popular (among the general public); populist; plebian; low-brow; widely liked
- —武家衆samurai for the shogunate
- —公家衆courtier; noble; people serving the Imperial Court
- —在国衆feudal lord who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
- —烏合の衆disorderly crowd; mob; rabble
- —勤労大衆working people
- —公衆道徳public morals
- —公衆便所public lavatory; public toilet; public restroom; slut; whore; floozy; tramp; trollop
- —公衆浴場public bathhouse
- —衆参両院both houses of the Diet
- —衆人環視all eyes (of the public); (in) full view of the public; (with) everyone looking on; (focus of) public attention
- —衆議一決deciding unanimously or by consensus
- —大衆運動mass movement; popular movement
- —一般大衆ordinary people; general public; public at large
- —衆愚政治mobocracy; mob rule; ochlocracy
- —大衆食堂cheap restaurant; eating place (house)
- —衆目一致universal agreement; broad consensus
- —大衆団交mass (labor) negotiation; mass bargaining session; public negotiation
- —大衆路線(adopting) a popular line; (taking) a populist line