一切經音義 17.115

English (machine translation) 17.115

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17.115

Dabbling and sucking (唼吮: [唼 is pronounced] 所 + 甲 [shà]; the second is 似 + 兖 [shǔn]. Gu Yewang says: 'The pecking and feeding of wild ducks and mallards with their bills is called [唼].' The Shiji records that Wu Qi sucked (吮) the boil of a soldier. The Shuowen says: 'It derives from 口 [mouth] with 允 as phonetic.' The Gujin zhengzi states: 'The two characters 唼 and 吮 both derive from 口 [mouth] with 妾 and 允 respectively as phonetics').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese