一切經音義 11.115

English (machine translation) 11.115

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11.115

Melted away and extinguished: the upper character has the fanqie *xi* + *jiao*. Zheng Xuan's commentary on the *Liji* states: '銷 (*xiao*) means to disperse.' The *Shuowen* states: 'To melt metal,' pronounced *shang* + *zhuo*. It has the metal radical (金) and 肖 as phonetic. The lower character has the fanqie *mi* + *jie*. The *Shuowen* states: '滅 (*mie*) means to exhaust completely.' It is composed of 水, 戍, and 火; 戍 is the hearth of fire, and water extinguishes fire, making it an associative compound character.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese