一切經音義 41.242

English (machine translation) 41.242

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41.242

Beating the breast (椎胷: the first [character] is *dr(yang)* + *l(wi)* in fanqie; derived from 木. The second [character] is *h(yok)* + *k(yowng)* in fanqie. 胷 means the chest. Beating the breast is the ritual [expression] of cutting grief and self-mutilation; derived from an abbreviation of 包, a phono-semantic character.)

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese