一切經音義 31.146

English (machine translation) 31.146

Language: English

31.146

Apertures and crevices (竅隙: the first character has the sound q- [啟] + -iào [叫] fanqie. The Rites of Zhou says: 'The medical officers examine them by means of the changes of the nine apertures.' Zheng Xuan says: 'There are seven yang apertures and two yin apertures.' The Taixuanjing says: 'The nine apertures: one and six are the front and the ears; two and seven are the eyes; two and eight are the nostrils and the rear.' It also says: '竅 means a hole.' The Shuowen says: 'An emptiness; it is formed from the cave radical (穴) with qiào (敫) as phonetic').

Previous: 31.145
Next: 31.147
Up: 31

Linked texts (1)

一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese