百姓
Meanings
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- 1.common people
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Wiktionary
- 1.the common people; the masses; ordinary citizens
- 2.(in periods prior to the Han dynasty) all the clan names of the noble families; all the nobles; all aristocrats as a category; the countless (noble) government officials
- 3.all kinds of government officials
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Etymology
Earliest attested in the Zhou dynasty's texts (also written as 百生 (bǎixìng ~ bǎishēng) on some bronze inscriptions); further linked to the expression 多生 (duōshēng) on the oracle bone inscriptions.
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