群
group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc
Closest English meanings
group·crowd·flock
The Calligrapher — Yán Zhēnqīng 颜真卿
Tang master of robust regular script; co-creator of the enduring 'Yan style'.
Tang calligrapher (709–784), master of regular script/running script — the Tang moral paragon whose upright, muscular regular script became the model of Chinese integrity in writing. Tang dynasty
Cultural Story
群 counts what gathers: sheep first, then people, birds, and islands. The 易经 sorts the world by it — 物以群分, things part into flocks — while the 论语 draws the gentleman's line: 群而不党, he mingles with all yet factions with none. To belong to a group and stay unbought was the classical balancing act.
Common words & phrases
- 群众 masses · the public
- 群体 group
- 人群 crowd
- 群岛 archipelago
- 合群 sociable
Read the story behind the character
The group chat is the new flock: the 微信群 for the apartment building, the carpool 群 for commuters, homework groups pinging past midnight. You push through 人群 (crowd) at the subway exit, vacation among 群岛 (archipelago) reefs, and worry the new kid is 不合群 (not sociable) — though introverts would call it peace.
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