一切經音義 26.162

English (machine translation) 26.162

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26.162

Mosquito proboscis (zui: zi + lei fan; also written with 𠲿, meaning the same as 觜; the Guangya states that it means "mouth"; character glossaries say it means a bird's beak; in sūtra texts some write 𭉨, quan + ruan fan, the same as "to suck" (吮), which is not the sense intended in the sūtra).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese