一切經音義 20.77

English (machine translation) 20.77

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20.77

繒綵 ("silks and colored fabrics"; the former character, fanqie: 牆 + 蠅. The Shuowen says: "Zeng (繒) is the general term for silk fabrics; it takes 糸 as semantic and 曾 as phonetic." The latter character, fanqie: 倉 + 宰. The Shangshu says: "Illuminating and displaying the five colors with the five variegated hues." The Kaogong ji says: "Arranging the five hues together is called embroidery." The Shuowen says: "It takes 糸 as semantic and 釆 as phonetic").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese