一切經音義 16.63

English (machine translation) 16.63

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16.63

Twisted and crooked (繚綟: the first character has the fanqie l- + [w]u [=liáo]. The second character has the fanqie l- + [j]ie [=liè]; in the sūtra text, 'legs twisted and crooked' means the legs are bent and not straight, also meaning deformed; both are phono-semantic characters formed with 'silk' [糸]; mì [糸] is pronounced mì).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese