一切經音義 20.33

English (machine translation) 20.33

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20.33

瑞應 ("auspicious response"; [the former] fanqie: 垂 + 類. Gu Yewang says: "When a sovereign's abundant virtue moves Qian and Kun (Heaven and Earth), Heaven and Earth respond to him with a pledge of trust." The Cangjie pian says: "Rui (瑞) means an auspicious response." The Shuowen says: "Rui means using jade as a token of trust; it takes 玉 as semantic and 耑 as phonetic"; 耑 is pronounced 端).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese