群がる

むらがる · muragaru · JLPT N1 · verb-godan

to swarm

群 — 君 jūn (phonetic) + 羊 sheep (semantic)
群 is a phono-semantic compound. The 羊 (sheep) component gives the meaning — sheep naturally gather in flocks — while 君 (jūn) supplies the sound. From the literal sense of a flock, the meaning broadened to any group, crowd, or cluster of people or things.

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