一切經音義 41.47

English (machine translation) 41.47

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41.47

Level as a grindstone (砥掌: fanqie ch- + l- [= chí-lǚ]. Du's commentary on the Zuozhuan says: "Dǐ (砥) means level." The Cangjie pian says: "A whetstone or grindstone." In the Shuowen jiezi it is written as 底, a soft stone; composed of the cliff radical (厂) with dǐ (氐) phonetic; the cliff radical is pronounced hǎn).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese