一切經音義 30.115

English (machine translation) 30.115

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30.115

Greedy and gluttonous (貪婪: the second character has the fanqie luo-han; the Songs of Chu states that coveting wealth is called 貪, and coveting food is called 婪; the Kaosheng states that 婪 means voracious and lacking restraint; it is also written as 惏; the Wenzi dianshuo states that it is formed from 'woman' [女] with 林 as phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese