Dong Chinese dictionary

zhòng

crowd, people

Depicts a crowd of people (乑) standing under the sun (日).

Components

日 Iconic component

rì

sun

Later reanalyzed as 目 (eye).

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 日 than it was in ancient scripts.

乑 Iconic component

yín, zhòng

people standing side-by-side

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

zhòng

masses, people, multitude, crowd; many; numerous; crowd; multitude

Zhòng

abbr. for 眾議院|众议院[Zhòngyìyuàn], House of Representatives

Most common words with 眾

Sources