一切經音義 63.28

English (machine translation) 63.28

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63.28

鐫題 Inscribing an inscription (the first character is juan + yuan [juān]; the Fangyan says: "'Juan' is called 'zan' (chisel)." The Boya says: "'Juan' means to bore, carve, or chisel." The Shuowen says: "To carve metal or stone." The Wenzidian shuo says: "To split wood or carve stone; [the character] derives from 'metal' with 'juan' phonetic; zan has the sound cai + gan [cán]; juan has the sound quan + yan [juǎn]").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese