一切經音義 34.110

English (machine translation) 34.110

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34.110

Coiling and winding [蟠曲]: the first [character is pronounced with the fanqie] po-man (婆鏝反). Gu Yewang states: 'Winding and revolving around.' The Guangya states: 'Pán (蟠) means coiled.' Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Liji states: 'Pán means bending and winding.' The Shuowen [jiezi] says it is formed from [the semantic component] chóng (虫, serpent/insect) and [the phonetic component] fān (番); pán also means winding. Fān has the sound pan. Correctly it is written with this pán (蟠); in the sūtra text it is written as 磐, which does not have this meaning.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese