一切經音義 47.128

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47.128

彈指 (snapping the fingers; pronounced with the fanqie 唐 and 寒 [=tán]. The Guangya says: '彈 means to pluck / snap.' Gu Yewang says: 'In all cases, causing something to move by striking is called 彈.' The Shuowen jiezi states that it takes 弓 as semantic component and 單 as phonetic component).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese