Assertion: pronoun's use | /r/HasProperty | uncommon
Facets:
value: in the chinese cultural sphere
type: LOCATION
value: previously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Previously, in the Chinese cultural sphere, the use of the first-person pronoun in formal courtly language was already uncommon, with the nobility using the self-deprecating term guǎrén 寡人 ('lonely one') for self-reference, while their subjects referred to themselves as chén 臣 ('subject', original meaning 'servant' or 'slave'), with an indirect deferential reference like zhúxià 足下 ('below [your] foot'), or by employing a deferential epithet (such as the adjective yú (愚), 'foolish').