Taxonomy of meanings for 百姓:  

  • OFFICIAL
    • NPpluralrarely: officials (XUN)LZ
  • PEOPLE
    • NP{vadN}commonthe general public; the (taxpaying) people (i.e. the entire population, particularly the common people like the peasants, often apparently excluding the non-tax-paying dependents)
    • NP{vadN}unspecifiedthe people
    • NP{vadN}wellbornthe people who count; the gentry (i.e. primarily the wellborn people)
    • NPagentthe people (not necessarily only those who had family names)
    • NPpost-N{PLACE}天下百性
    • NPpostVtobjectthe people (as grammatical object)
    • NP(post-N)definitethe people ruled by the contextually determinate NCH
    • NP[post-npro1](my) peopleCH
    • NPcollective.objectthe peopleCH
    • NPadNpeople'sDS
  • HUMBLE
    • NPsingularordinary member of the common people