一切經音義 20.30

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20.30

戲樂 ("play and joy"; [the former] fanqie: 希 + 意. The Mao Commentary to the Shijing says: "Xi (戲) means ease and recreation." The Guangya says: "Xi means venting, or displaying." The Shuowen says: "It takes 戈 as semantic and 䖒 as phonetic"; 䖒 is pronounced 希. The latter character, fanqie: 郎 + 各).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese