群衆

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 群衆, read ぐんしゅう, denotes a body of many people gathered together and viewed as one crowd.
• Basic usage: It covers a crowd applauding in a plaza and the body of people a guard directs toward an exit.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A group rather than an individual
  • It refers to a gathered body of people as a whole, not to one member of that group.