Chinese symbol for “masses”
大众
dà zhòng
Traditional: 大眾
the masses; the great bulk of the population; popular (of music, science etc)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for masses is 大众 (dà zhòng), defined as: the masses; the great bulk of the population; popular (of music, science etc).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “masses”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 民众 (民眾) | mín zhòng | the populace; the masses; the common people |
| 群众 (群眾) | qún zhòng | mass; multitude |
| 黎庶 | lí shù | populace; masses; the people |
| 烝 | zhēng | multitudinous; the masses |
| 普通民众 (普通民眾) | pǔ tōng mín zhòng | ordinary people; the masses |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大众.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 群众 (群眾) | qún zhòng | mass; multitude |
| 公众 (公眾) | gōng zhòng | public |
See also: Japanese symbol for “masses”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.