一切經音義 31.313

31.313

減省（上夾斬反詩云減少也杜注左傳云輕也損也說文亦損也從水咸聲也）。

Curtail and reduce (減省: the upper character [減] has the fanqie phonetic [jian] (夾斬反). The Book of Songs states: "減 means to diminish." Du Yu's commentary to the Zuo zhuan states: "It means to lighten; to reduce." The Shuowen jiezi states: "It also means to diminish; derived from the water radical (水) with the phonetic marker [xian] (咸)").