Read Edit View history 黔首 qiánshǒu common people Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 黔首 qiánshǒu 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 Written text 0.073 per million Cross-References Synonym 老百姓 lǎobǎixìng黎民 límín Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
黔首 qiánshǒu 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 Written text 0.073 per million Cross-References Synonym 老百姓 lǎobǎixìng黎民 límín Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)