一切經音義 36.49

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36.49

鹹鹻: The first character has the fanqie xia + jian (xián). The *Shangshu* says: 'Moistening downward creates saltiness.' The *Shuowen* says: 'The northern flavour; composed of the 'salt' (鹵) semantic and xian (咸) phonetic.' The second character has the fanqie jia + zhan (jiǎn). The *Picang* says: 'Jian means alkali/saline earth.' The *Kaosheng* says: 'Saline soil; a phono-semantic compound character.'

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese