一切經音義 20.175

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20.175

Washing hands (盥掌: [the first character is pronounced] guan [gong + huan fan]. The Shuowen states: '盥 means washing the hands.' Note that in all cases, washing objects is called 盥. The character form is composed of hand (手), mortar (臼), and water over a basin (皿); 臼 is pronounced jiu [ju + liu fan]. In the sūtra text it is sometimes written with the additional water radical as 𤃗, which is incorrect).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese