一切經音義 20.32

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20.32

幻術 ("arts of illusion"; the former character, fanqie: 還 + 慢. The latter character, fanqie: 脣 + 律. The Zhuangzi says: "The mental art takes form." Zheng Xuan says: "Shu (術) is like an art or skill." The Han Commentary to the Shijing says: "Shu means method." The Shuowen says: "It means a path within a town; it takes 行 as semantic and 朮 as phonetic"; 朮 has the fanqie: 呈 + 律).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese