一切經音義 89.75

English (machine translation) 89.75

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89.75

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.”).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese