一切經音義 29.30

English (machine translation) 29.30

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29.30

Fragrant and sweet 芬馥 (The upper character has the fanqie fang + wen; the Erya says: “A fragrance spreading widely.” The Shuowen derives it from cao 屮 to make 𡵳 with the phonetic fen 分. The lower character has the fanqie feng + fu; the Han poems commentary says: “馥 also means fragrant.” The Shuowen says: “The appearance of fragrance; deriving from xiang 香 [fragrance] with an abbreviated phonetic fu 復”).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese