一切經音義 6.8

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6.8

鼻嗅 ("to sniff with the nose": [fanqie] 休救 [xiù]. Yunying says: "To draw in breath with the nose." Shuowen says: "Approaching an odor with the nose is called xiù." It is composed of 鼻 with 臭 as the phonetic. The ancients simply used 臭 for xiù.)

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese