一切經音義 34.104

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34.104

Barley [麰麥]: the first [character is pronounced with the fanqie] mo-hou (莫候反). Liu Xi's commentary on the Mengzi states: 'Móu (麰) is barley with double awns.' Guo [Pu's] commentary on the Fangyan states: 'Barley (dàmài).' Also, Wang Xiao says: 'Nowadays in Hebei, it is sown in spring and ripens in summer.' The Shuowen [jiezi] states: 'Wheat and barley, also auspicious grain.' It is formed from [the semantic component] mài (麥, wheat) and [the phonetic component] móu (牟).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese