黔けん黎れい

noun

commoners; the masses; peasantry

Archaic literary term for ordinary people, especially in classical Chinese-influenced contexts. Not used in modern Japanese outside historical or poetic writing.

• 古こ典てんでは「黔けん黎れい」は庶しょ民みんを指さす言こと葉ばとして使つかわれた。

  In classical texts, '黔黎' was used as a term for the common people.