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The simplified character 众 is an ideogram for a crowd or multitude, contrasting with its traditional form 眾. The traditional character features the eye radical 罒 above a complex lower section combining phonetic and semantic elements, suggesting many people observed by an eye. The modern simplification discards this complexity for intuitive structural logic: it stacks three human components 人 in a pyramidal shape. This repetition visually forms a group, directly representing its meaning of a large gathering, the masses, or a numerous quantity, returning the character to a literal pictogram of a crowd.
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众人看着我。
众多游客来参观。
他的表演吸引了众多观众。
这本小说深受大众喜爱。
关于这个方案，众人意见不一。
我们必须考虑大多数民众的需求。
这项政策的调整引起了舆论的众怒。
众说纷纭的观点让决策者难以统一意见。