- folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]
- popular art forms (contrasted with 陽春白雪|阳春白雪[yang2 chun1 bai2 xue3], highbrow art forms)
Characters
- 下 (下): down; downwards; below; lower; later; next (week etc); second (of two parts); to decline; to go down; to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc); measure word to show the frequency of an action
- 里 (裏): variant of 裡|里[li3]
- 巴 (巴): Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan); abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing; surname Ba; abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian; abbr. for Pakistan
- 人 (人): person; people; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 下里巴人
- MDBG: 下里巴人
- Examples with 下里巴人 on Tatoeba
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