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黔首
qián​shǒu

common people

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
黔首 qián​shǒu
common people
(literary) the common people; the masses. This term was frequently used in the Warring States period and the Qin dynasty, literally referring to the black headscarves worn by commoners at the time.

Frequency

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0.073 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 老百姓 lǎo​bǎi​xìng
  • 黎民 lí​mín

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)