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百姓
Mandarin · pinyin bǎi xìng
Meanings
- common people
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3–4 · bai3 xing4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
baak3 sing3
Cantonese word readings for 百姓. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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noun
- the common people; the masses; ordinary citizens
- (obsolete, archaic) (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
- (obsolete, Classical) all kinds of government officials
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