一切經音義 31.431

English (machine translation) 31.431

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31.431

Frustrated and thwarted (轗軻) (The first character has the fanqie kan + gan; the second has the fanqie ke + wo. The Chuci says: “Kanke (轗軻) refers to being detained and obstructed.” Gu Yewang says: “Kanke means failing to meet with success.” The Gujin zhengzi states: “It means axles colliding. Both characters are formed from the ‘cart’ classifier and the phonetics gan (感) and ke (可)”).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese