一切經音義 3.16

English (machine translation) 3.16

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3.16

睡眠 (sleep and drowsiness; the former is chui/wei fan; Jixun says: 'Sitting and sleeping'; character dictionaries say: 'Sleeping soundly'; Shuowen jiezi says: 'Composed of 目 with 垂 phonetic'; the latter is mo/bian fan; Wang Yi's commentary on the Elegies of Chu says: '眠 means lying down'; Shuowen jiezi writes it as [目*(宜/八)], pronounced mian, with eyes closed; Gujin zhengzi writes it as 眠, eyes closed, composed of 目 with 民 phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese