群

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group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

羊 meaning “sheep” + 君 sound ( jūn )

Components 君羊

crowd · Heisig RSH #961

君 monarch + 羊 sheep

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
高发人群	gāo fā rén qún	(medicine) high-risk group
马德拉群岛	Mǎ dé lā Qún dǎo	Madeira; the Madeira Islands
生物群	shēng wù qún	biota
斯普拉特利群岛	Sī pǔ lā tè lì Qún dǎo	see 南沙群島\|南沙群岛[Nan2 sha1 Qun2 dao3]
西南中沙群岛	Xī Nán Zhōng shā Qún dǎo	Paracel, Spratly, and Zhongsha Islands, in the South China Sea, whose ownership is dispute…
化石群	huà shí qún	fossil assemblage
主车群	zhǔ chē qún	peloton (main group of riders in a bicycle race)
北马里亚纳群岛	Běi Mǎ lǐ yà nà Qún dǎo	Northern Mariana Islands
马尔维纳斯群岛	Mǎ ěr wéi nà sī Qún dǎo	Malvinas Islands (also known as Falkland Islands)
马利亚纳群岛	Mǎ lì yà nà Qún dǎo	Mariana Islands in the Pacific
马里亚纳群岛	Mǎ lǐ yà nà Qún dǎo	Mariana Islands in the Pacific
火地群岛	Huǒ dì Qún dǎo	Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia
三五成群	sān wǔ chéng qún	in groups of three or four (idiom)
加罗林群岛	Jiā luó lín Qún dǎo	Caroline Islands
法罗群岛	Fǎ luó Qún dǎo	Faroe Islands
子群	zǐ qún	subgroup (math.)
人群	rén qún	crowd
群山	qún shān	mountains; a range of hills
群体性事件	qún tǐ xìng shì jiàn	mass incident (PRC term for incidents of social unrest, including rioting, melees and peti…
群马	Qún mǎ	Gunma (prefecture in Japan)

Characters sharing the sound component 君 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
君 sound part	jūn	sovereign, ruler, prince, monarch, chief
裙	qún	skirt, petticoat, apron
郡	jùn	county, region, administrative division
窘	jiǒng	distressed; embarrassed; hard-pressed
捃	jùn	to gather, to sort