一切經音義 24.90

English (machine translation) 24.90

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24.90

Xīxì 嬉戲 (The upper character is fanqie 喜其 [xī]; also pronounced xǐ 喜. The Cangjie pian says: 'xī 嬉 also means to play and laugh'. The Gujin zhengzi says: 'to delight; with radical nǚ 女 and xǐ 喜 phonetic'. The lower character is fanqie 希寄 [xì]. The Kaosheng says: 'xì 戲 means to jest, to please'. Guo's commentary on the Erya says: 'to play playfully'. The Shuowen jiezi says it has radical gē 戈 and xī 䖒 phonetic. In the sūtra text, it is written with xū 虛 as 戱, which is a vulgar character; xī 䖒 is pronounced xī 希).

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