一切經音義 56.197

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色虹: (Fanqie: 胡 + 公 [hú-gōng]). Guo Pu's Erya yinyi states: 'When rainbows appear in pairs, the vivid and bright one is the male, called hóng; the darker one is the female, called ní.' Ní is also written as 霓 (fanqie: 五 + 奚 [wǔ-xī], in common pronunciation fanqie: 古 + 巷 [gǔ-xiàng]); it is a dark blue rainbow.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese