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一切經音義 17.50

一切經音義 17.50

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Classical Chinese

17.50

坑澗(客耕反爾雅坑墟也鄭注禮記云坑池塹也蒼頡篇壑也亦陷也說文從土從亢聲也亢音罡下間晏反爾雅云山夾水曰澗說文從水間聲也)。

Pits and ravines (坑澗; the first character is [pronounced with the] fanqie kè + [g]ēng. The Erya says: “A kēng is a burial mound/ruin.” Zheng's commentary to the Liji says: “A kēng is a pond or moat.” The Cangjiepian says: “It is a ravine; it also means sunken.” The Shuowen says: “It takes tǔ ‘earth’ as semantic classifier and kàng as phonetic.” Kàng is pronounced gāng. The second character is [pronounced with the] fanqie jiān + [y]àn. The Erya says: “Mountains enclosing water are called a jiàn.” The Shuowen says: “It takes shuǐ ‘water’ as semantic classifier and jiān as phonetic”).

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