一切經音義 89.75

89.75

黔首（上儉炎反鄭玄注禮記黔首民也史記云始皇二十六年更名民曰黔首也說文黔黑黎也從黑今聲）。

Common people (for the first [character 黔], j- + [y]an [qián]; Zheng Xuan's commentary to the Book of Rites says: “The black-headed are the common people.” The Shiji says: “In the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor, the common people were renamed 'black-headed' (qianshou).” The Shuowen says: “'Qian' means black and dark. It follows 黑 (black) and has 今 as its phonetic.”).