群 众 qún zhòng mass / multitude / the masses 人 海 rén hǎi a multitude / a sea of people 人 山 人 海 rén shān rén hǎi (idiom) multitude / vast crowd 黎 lí (literary) black / dark / many / multitude 苠 mín multitude / skin of bamboo 甡 shēn multitude / crowd 冗 冗 rǒng rǒng numerous / excessive / multitude 之 一 zhī yī one of (sth) / one out of a multitude / one (third, quarter, percent etc) 庶 民 shù mín the multitude of common people (in highbrow literature) / plebeian 众 矢 之 的 zhòng shǐ zhī dì lit. target of a multitude of arrows (idiom) / the butt of public criticism / attacked on all sides 合 众 hé zhòng mass / involving everyone / united / lit. to assemble the multitude 济 济 jì jì a horde or multitude of people 千 头 万 绪 qiān tóu wàn xù plethora of things to tackle / multitude of loose ends / very complicated / chaotic 敌 众 我 寡 dí zhòng wǒ guǎ multitude of enemies, few friends (idiom from Mencius) / heavily outnumbered / beaten by the weight of numbers 杞 梓 之 林 Qǐ zǐ zhī lín (idiom) a multitude of talented people 灿 若 繁 星 càn ruò fán xīng bright as a multitude of stars (idiom) / extremely able talent 众 盲 摸 象 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 满 天 繁 星 mǎn tiān fán xīng lit. whole sky, a multitude of stars