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一切經音義 24.13

一切經音義 24.13

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Classical Chinese

24.13

鍼孔(執滛反廣雅曰鍼刺也說文所以用縫衣也從金咸省聲也今從十作針俗字也)。

Eye of a needle 鍼孔 (fanqie: 執滛 [zhēn]; the Guangya says: "鍼 means to prick"; the Shuowen says: "That which is used to sew clothes"; it is formed from the radical 金 with an abbreviated 咸 as phonetic; nowadays writing it with 十 as 針 is a vulgar character).

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