一切經音義 11.4

English (machine translation) 11.4

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11.4

縱橫 (The upper character is z-[u]-y-[ong] fan; the lower is h-[uo]-m-[eng] fan. The Shuowen jiezi writes it as 從. The Kaosheng and the Erya say: '縱 means long, vertical; 橫 means broad, horizontal, lateral directions.' The Han Poems say: 'North-south is vertical (縱); east-west is horizontal (橫).' The Shuowen jiezi says: '橫 is a crossbar of wood; it derives from 木 [wood] with 黃 [huáng] phonetic').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese