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一切經音義 18.6

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18.6

發軫 (first character: fanqie 方襪 [fā]; Kaosheng: "發 means to move, to rise, to raise, to depart"; Shuowen jiezi: "To shoot and discharge; classified under radical 弓 with phonetic component 癹, representing the sound of an arrow being discharged; 癹 is pronounced with the fanqie 普沫 [pō]"; second character: fanqie 之忍 [zhěn]; Xu Shuzhong's commentary to Huainanzi: "軫 means to turn; taken in the sense of first turning the carriage wheel, namely setting out on different ruts"; it is also written with radical 田 as 畛; Chu ci: "'The fields and cities have thousands of balks'; Wang Yi's commentary: "'畛 denotes raised field-paths, each leading to a separate road'"; inspecting the preface's author, the text encompasses both senses, and therefore both are adduced to provide the full textual meaning; Shuowen jiezi: "The paths between the well-fields; a phono-semantic character, and also an ideogram").

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