The word 众人 is formed by combining two characters: 众, which is a pictographic character originally depicting three people (亻) together to represent a "multitude" or "crowd", and 人, which means "person" or "people". Their combination is conceptually straightforward and reinforcing; it essentially layers the idea of "multiple" or "many" (众) directly onto the core concept of "people" (人) to create a single term meaning "the multitude", "everyone", or "all people". It is a direct semantic compound where the meaning of the whole is the sum of its visible parts.