一切經音義 60.175

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60.175

Famine and crop failure (飢饉; the first character is fanqie 几 + 冝. Gu Yewang says: "Humans and livestock in need of food." The Guliang zhuan says: "When the five grains do not ripen, it is called 飢." The Shuowen says: "Hungry; it takes radical 食 and 几 as phonetic." The second character is pronounced 近. The Erya says: "When vegetables do not ripen, it is called 饉." The Guliang zhuan says: "When the three grains do not ripen, it is called 饉; a phono-semantic compound character").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese