一切經音義 3.21

English (machine translation) 3.21

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3.21

艱辛 (hardship and toil; the former is cao/xian fan; Erya says: '艱 means difficult'; Shuowen jiezi says: 'Soil that is difficult to cultivate; composed of [共-八+((中-〡+人)/土)] with 艮 phonetic'; [共-八+((中-〡+人)/土)] is pronounced jin, from which the character derives; popular usage today corruptly writes it from [(嘆-口)-廿+(共-八)]; the character 辛 has 二 on top, written as 辛).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese