一切經音義 24.13

English (machine translation) 24.13

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24.13

Eye of a needle 鍼孔 (fanqie: 執滛 [zhēn]; the Guangya says: "鍼 means to prick"; the Shuowen says: "That which is used to sew clothes"; it is formed from the radical 金 with an abbreviated 咸 as phonetic; nowadays writing it with 十 as 針 is a vulgar character).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese