"Multitude" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 qún zhòng mass / multitude / the masses
 rén hǎi a multitude / a sea of people
 rén shān rén hǎi multitude / vast crowd
 lí (literary) black / dark / many / multitude
 mín multitude / skin of bamboo
 shēn multitude / crowd
 rǒng rǒng numerous / excessive / multitude
 zhī yī one of (sth) / one out of a multitude / one (third, quarter, percent etc)
 shù mín the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) / plebeian
 zhòng shǐ zhī dì lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom) / the butt of public criticism / attacked on all sides
 hé zhòng mass / involving everyone / united / lit. to assemble the multitude
 jì jì a horde or multitude of people
 qiān tóu wàn xù plethora of things to tackle / multitude of loose ends / very complicated / chaotic
 dí zhòng wǒ guǎ multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers
 zhòng guǎ xuán shū the multitude against the few, a wide disparity (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / unequally matched / overwhelmed by weight of numbers
 càn ruò fán xīng bright as a multitude of stars (idiom) / extremely able talent
 zhòng máng mō xiàng multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅槃經|大般涅盘经[da4 ban1 Nie4 pan2 jing1]) / fig. unable to see the big picture / to mistake the part for the whole / unable to see the wood for the trees
 mǎn tiān fán xīng lit. whole sky, a multitude of stars
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