一切經音義 21.178

English (machine translation) 21.178

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21.178

Sheltering and reflecting one another (The fanqie for the second character is 卑至 [bì]. Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Liji says: '庇 means to cover.' The Erya says: '庇 means to shelter.' Character lexicons state: '映 means to shine laterally, or intermingling colors.' It means they shelter and reflect one another like the interwoven patterns of five colors. The ancient standard form of 映 was 𰥬, meaning the sun directly at the center as reflection; instances written with the sun radical beside 英 are erroneous).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese