一切經音義 55.57

English (machine translation) 55.57

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55.57

Qixing ruandong (crawling and wriggling) (the first character has the sound qí; the *Zhoushu* states: 'Crawling and panting.' The *Wenzi dian shuo* states: 'Qi means insects walking.' The *Shuowen* states: 'It takes 虫 as semantic classifier and 支 as phonetic.' Ruandong: ruan has the fanqie: 如 + 允 [ruǎn]; the *Huainanzi* states: 'Insects wriggle.' The *Zhuangzi* states: 'Wriggling insects.' Sima Biao's commentary states: 'Ruan also means to move.' The *Shuowen* states: 'It takes 虫 as semantic classifier and 耎 as phonetic;' 耎 has the fanqie: 而 + 兖 [ruǎn]).

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