一切經音義 16.40

English (machine translation) 16.40

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16.40

Chests and coffers (箱篋: the second character has the fanqie q- + [y]e [=qiè]; Zheng's commentary to the Book of Rites says: 'A qiè (篋) is a box (㨔)'; xiān (㨔) is pronounced xián [咸]; the Shuowen says: 'A kind of chest; a qiè is also a basket (笥)'; in ancient script it was written 匧, formed with 'box' [匚] (pronounced fāng) and jiā [夾] as phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese