一切經音義 37.71

English (machine translation) 37.71

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37.71

飢饉: The first character has the pronunciation of 機. The second character has the pronunciation of 近. The Erya says: "Failure of the grain crop is called 飢; failure of vegetables is called 饉." According to the Book of Rites: "Famine and shortage (饑饉) refer to bad years when the crops do not mature." The Shuowen [jiezi] states that both characters 飢 and 饉 take the food radical (食), with 几 and 堇 as their phonetics. The pronunciation of 堇 is 謹.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese