一切經音義 35.165

English (machine translation) 35.165

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35.165

Drown in water (水㲻) (the second character is *ning-de* fan; in the Book of Rites, Confucius says: "A noble person drowns in his mouth; a petty person drowns in water", meaning to be submerged and unable to extricate oneself; it also says: "There are three kinds of dead for whom condolences are not offered: fear, being crushed, and drowning"; Shuowen jiezi says: "Submerged in water"; it takes the person radical and the water radical; it is also anciently written as 溺).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese