一切經音義 11.38

English (machine translation) 11.38

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11.38

虧徵 (q-[u]-zh-[ui] fan. The Kaosheng says: '虧 means to fall away, to injure.' Zheng's commentary on Mao's Poetry says: '虧 is akin to destroy.' Wang Yi's commentary on the Elegies of Chu says: '虧 means deficient.' The Guangya says: '虧 means few.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'Loss of breath; it derives from 雐, pronounced hū, with 亐 [yú] phonetic; 亐 is the character 于; sometimes deriving from 𠔃, written as 虧.' The lower character is zh-[i]-j-[in] fan. Du Yu's commentary on the Zuo zhuan says: '徵 means proof.' The Shuowen jiezi says: '徵 means manifestation; it derives from 壬, tiāndǐng fan, with 微 [wēi] abbreviated phonetic').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese