一切經音義 5.149

English (machine translation) 5.149

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5.149

Cowardly and terrified (怯怖) (The first character has the fanqie kuang + ye [q-]; also written 㹤. The Shuowen says: 'Having much fear.' The Liji says: 'The courageous suffer from cowardice.' The Yupian says: 'Qie (怯) means fearful and weak; qie means to retreat.' The second character has the fanqie pu + bu [b-]; also written 悑. The Guangya says: 'Bu (怖) means frightened.' The Kaosheng says: 'Bu means hurried (遽), [with the fanqie] qu + yu [j-], meaning terrified; properly written 遽.' The Shuowen says: 'Bu is like being panic-stricken; derived from xin (heart) with bu as phonetic').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese