一切經音義 98.242

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幺麼（上杳堯反下魔跛反考聲云幺麼並小細也漢書久洗幺麼尚不及數字說文幺小也象子初生之形麼從[系-小]麻聲）。

幺麼 (Upper: yao-yao [yāo]; lower: mo-bo [mó]. The Kaosheng states: 'Yao and mo both mean tiny and subtle.' The Hanshu states: 'Having long washed off the tiny and insignificant, it does not even amount to several figures.' The Shuowen states: 'Yao means small; it depicts the shape of a newly born infant. Mo takes [系-小] with ma [麻] as phonetic.')