一切經音義 60.138

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Birdlime (䅻膠; the first character is fanqie 恥 + 知. The Kaosheng says: "Birdlime is made by pounding tree bark and boiling it down; it can be used to trap birds, resembling glue." The second character is pronounced 交. Gu Yewang says: "膠 means sticky; that by which things are connected together to make them adhere to one another." The Shuowen says: "It takes radical 肉 and 翏 abbreviated as phonetic").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese