Li Feng
Scholars believe Quanrong was a later name for the Xianyun 猃狁 (written with "xian", defined as a kind of dog with a long snout ["Erya"] or a black dog with a yellow face ["Shuowen Jiezi"]). According to sinologist Li Feng, "It is very probable that when the term Xianyun came to be written with the two characters 獫狁, the notion of 'dog' associated with the character "xian" thus gave rise to the term Quanrong 犬戎, or the 'Dog Barbarians'."