群れ
むれ · mure · JLPT N2 · noun
herd
🐑🐄 群 (group) + れ (sounds like 'ray'): a ray of sheep, a herd of cows
群 means a group or gathering, and the reading むれ is close to English 'murmur' for a crowd of voices. Think of a mure as a group that moves together.
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.