一切經音義 66.134

English (machine translation) 66.134

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66.134

溉灌 (for the first character, g- + -ai in fanqie. Gu Yewang says: '溉 refers to channeling and pouring.' The Zhuangzi says: 'The flooding of runoff waters irrigating the fields.' The Shuowen says: '溉 is like irrigating.' It takes water as semantic and 既 as phonetic. For the second character, g- + -uan in fanqie. Gu Yewang says: '灌 is like irrigating and watering.' The Shuowen gives it with water as semantic and 雚 as phonetic; 雚 has the same sound as above).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese