一切經音義 66.84

English (machine translation) 66.84

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66.84

Crossing a moat (度塹; the lower character [塹] is fanqie 韱艷. Gu Yewang says: 'Nowadays the defensive moat around a city is called a 塹.' Lexicons state: 'City moat.' The Zhoushu says: 'Having no drainage ditch or moat, yet striking the target.' The Shuowen says: 'A moat is a pit.' It is composed with 'earth' (土) as semantic and 斬 as phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese