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一切經音義 41.204

一切經音義 41.204

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蛺蝶(上兼葉反下恬頰反蛺[蠂-世+云]蟲名也一名胡[蠂-世+云]莊周所夢者是也說文從虫皆形聲字也)。

蛺蝶 "Butterfly" (The first character is pronounced jian-ye [jia]; the second is pronounced tian-jia [die]. 蛺蝶 is the name of an insect, also called 胡蝶 [butterfly], which is what Zhuang Zhou dreamed of. The Shuowen jiezi says it is formed from 虫 'insect'; both are phono-semantic compounds).

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