一切經音義 60.192

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媒娉 (The upper character is [pronounced with the] fanqie 每杯 [méi]. The Rites of Zhou says: "A matchmaker schemes." Zheng Xuan says: "Scheming to unite different surnames, causing them to harmonize and form a marriage bond." The lower character is [pronounced with the] fanqie 匹併 [pìng]. The Kaosheng says: "To betroth; to take a wife with wealth." Both are derived from woman with mou and ping phonetic respectively. Sometimes it is written 聘 with the ear radical. 甹 is pronounced with the fanqie 匹丁 [pīng]).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese