一切經音義 40.156

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40.156

Soft-shelled turtles and tortoises (黿鼈; the first character is pronounced 元; the second has the fanqie 編 + 滅. The Shuowen jiezi states that both characters take the 'frog' radical [黽], with 元 and 敝 respectively as their phonetic elements. The sūtra writes 鱉, which is the commonly used popular form).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese