一切經音義 37.8
English (machine translation) 37.8
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37.8
Swiftly (倏然) (shang + rou fan. The Chuci says: "Coming and going swiftly." The Shuowen states: "A dog running. Composed with 'dog' [犬] semantic and 攸 phonetic." The lower character is re + zhan fan; an associative compound. The Shuowen states: "Dog meat. Composed with 'meat' [肉], 'dog' [犬], and 灬; 灬 is pronounced bi + yao fan").
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