MEotW: bǎixìng
The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:
Why does Mandarin use an expression literally meaning “hundred surnames” to refer to a nation’s people?
An example of the Chinese poem “Hundred Family Surnames” written in Chinese characters and in ʼPhags-pa script (For more information on the ʼPhags-pa script, see the MEotW post on “cuò”.)
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