一切經音義 20.8

English (machine translation) 20.8

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20.8

Eight cords of the cosmos (八紘: *huo-meng* fanqie; Xu Shuzhong's commentary on the *Huainanzi* says: *hong* means cord; Gu Yewang says: the eight *hong* refers to the eight extremities; the *Gujin zhengzi* says it derives from 糸 with 厷 as phonetic; 厷 has the same sound as above).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese