一切經音義 20.29

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妓女 ("female entertainers"; [the former] fanqie: 奇 + 倚. The Cangjie pian says: "Ji (妓) means a beautiful woman." The Kaosheng says: "Women who make music." The Shuowen says: "It takes 女 as semantic and 支 as phonetic." In later passages, ji in jiyue (妓樂, female music) and so forth are all the same).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese