一切經音義 53.75

English (machine translation) 53.75

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53.75

Lovely and beautiful (姝妍: the first character is chāng + zhū fanqie. Zheng's commentary on the Mao Shi says: "姝 means beautiful countenance." The Fangyan says: "In the region of Zhao and Wei, 'fine' is called 姝." The Shuowen says: "Fine; it takes the radical 女 and has 朱 as phonetic." The second character is ní + jiān fanqie. The Guangya says: "妍 means fine." The Shuowen says: "Jealous/clever; it takes the radical 女 and has 幵 as phonetic." 幵 is pronounced qiān, composed of two side-by-side 干).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese