一切經音義 29.89

English (machine translation) 29.89

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29.89

Relieved and healed (蠲愈): The upper character has the fanqie *jué* + *xuán* (蠲). The *Fangyan* says: 'In southern Chu, when an illness is healed, it is sometimes called *juān*.' Guo [Pu]'s commentary says: '*Juān* means to eliminate.' The lower character has the fanqie *yáng* + *zhǔ* (愈). Kong [Anguo]'s commentary on the *Analects* says: '*Yù* is like "surpassing".' The *Classic of Poetry* writes it as 㤤, meaning an illness abating. The *Shuowen [jiezi]* says: 'Recovery from disease. It is a phono-semantic compound.'

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese