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一切經音義 44.30

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44.30

膚豓 (beautiful complexion: the first character is fu + wu fanqie. The *Mao Shi* says: "膚 means beautiful." The *Shuowen jiezi* says: "膚 means skin; it is composed of 'flesh' (肉) with the abbreviated form of lu (盧) as its phonetic element." The second character is yan + tie fanqie. The *Mao Shi* says: "Beautiful allure is called yan." The *Zuo zhuan* says: "Fair and alluring; this is it." The *Shuowen jiezi* says: "It is composed of feng (豊), da (大), and xue (血)." The sūtra writes it with the radical 'color' (色) as 艷, which is a vulgar character).

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