一切經音義 2.16

English (machine translation) 2.16

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2.16

Waking and sleeping (寤寑: the upper character is pronounced wu. The Cang Jie pian says: when one awakens from sleep and can speak, it is called waking (寤); 'awakening' (覺) is pronounced jiao. The Shuowen jiezi says: it takes the 㝱 abbreviative signific and wu phonetic. The lower character is qin + shen fan. The Guangya says: 寝 means hidden/dark. The Shuowen jiezi says: 寢 means to lie down and sleep. In seal script it takes the broom (帚) and hand (又) significs. Nowadays, following popular usage, it is simplified to take the roof (宀) signific and qin phonetic. 㝱 is pronounced meng).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese