一切經音義 3.37

English (machine translation) 3.37

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3.37

泛大海 (sailing the great ocean; 泛 is fang/fan fan; Shuowen jiezi says: '泛 means to float; composed of 水 with 乏 phonetic'; 乏 is the inverted form of 正; the latter is he/gai fan; Gu Yewang says: 'The great waters that receive the drainage of ten thousand rivers'; Laozi says: 'The reason rivers and seas can be kings of the hundred valleys is that they excel at staying low'; Shuowen jiezi says: 'Composed of 水 with 每 phonetic').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese