一切經音義 18.38

English (machine translation) 18.38

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18.38

Raining a great rain of incense (the upper character 'rain' (yu) is in the falling tone, [pronounced with the fanqie] 于 + 句; the lower character 'rain' (yu) is in the rising tone, [pronounced with the fanqie] 于 + 矩. The Shuowen jiezi says: 'The character yu (rain) is a pictograph').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese