一切經音義 41.180

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41.180

偃仆 "Fall prostrate" (The first character is pronounced yang-jian [yan]. The Guangya says: "偃 means looking upwards/face up." The Shuowen jiezi says: "To fall stiff; formed from 人 'person' with 匽 as phonetic; 匽 has the same sound as above." The second character is pronounced peng-bei [pu]; sometimes written 踣. The Kaosheng says: "To fall forward; face down." The Shuowen jiezi says: "To topple over; a phono-semantic compound").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese