一切經音義 16.71

English (machine translation) 16.71

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16.71

Beautiful and exceptional (姝特: [the first character] has the fanqie ch- + [zh]u [=shū]; the Mao Commentary to the Odes says: 'Shū (姝) means beautiful'; the Shuowen says it is formed with 'woman' [女] and zhū [朱] as phonetic. The second character has the fanqie t- + [d]e [=tè]; Wen Ying's commentary to the Han shu says: 'Tè (特) means conspicuous'; the Shuowen says: 'Tè is a male bull'; it is formed with 'ox' [牛] and an abbreviated sì [寺] as phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese