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一切經音義 76.169

一切經音義 76.169

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76.169

殉命(上旬俊反賈誼服鳥賦云貪夫殉財列士殉名漢書臣瓚曰以身從物曰殉說文從歺旬聲歺音兢)。

Sacrificing one's life (殉命; the first character is fanqie 旬 + 俊. Jia Yi's Fu on the Owl says: 'The covetous man sacrifices himself for wealth; the man of principle sacrifices himself for fame.' In the Book of Han, Minister Zan says: 'To follow after external things with one's body is called 殉.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It takes 歺 as semantic classifier and 旬 as phonetic.' 歺 is pronounced 兢).

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