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一切經音義 37.63

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37.63

耎音: The first character has the fanqie [r]ú + [y]ǎn. Zheng['s] commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: "耎 means soft." The Shuowen [jiezi] says it has the radical 大 and 而 phonetic. The second character has the fanqie [y]ì + [y]īn. The Shuowen [jiezi] says: "Music/sound (音). It arises in the mind and is regulated externally; it is called sound. Composed of 'speech' (言) containing 'one' (一); it is an ideogram."

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