一切經音義 17.26

English (machine translation) 17.26

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17.26

老耄 (the second character has the fanqie: 莫 + 報; the Yunying says: "耄 also means old." Du's commentary on the Zuo zhuan says: "耄 means senile and confused." The Book of Rites says: "At eighty or ninety one is called 耄." Zheng's commentary says: "耄 also means confused and forgetful." The ancient character was written as 𦹾. The Shuowen says: "It is classified under old (老) and takes 蒿 abbreviated as phonetic." Nowadays in vulgar usage it is commonly written as 老).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese