一切經音義 75.75

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75.75

蒼頭 ("head servant / slave": Ying Shao's Hanshu commentary says: 'The Qin called commoners "dark heads" (黔首); 黔 means black, and 首 means head. Slaves were called "green-headed" (蒼頭) because their scarves were not purely black, in order to distinguish them from commoners').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese