民众

mínzhòng · HSK 7

masses

👥 民 people + 众 = three 人 stacked into a crowd; mín-zhòng = the masses

众 literally stacks three 人 (person) glyphs, so it reads as crowd or multitude. Pair it with 民 (the folk, the people) and 民众 is the populace or masses.

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