一切經音義 68.154

English (machine translation) 68.154

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68.154

Gluttonous and greedy (饕餮): the first character is [pronounced with the fanqie] 討 + 刀; the second character is 天 + 跌. Du's Commentary to the Zuo zhuan says: 'Craving wealth is called tāo; craving food is called tiè.' In the treatise it is written as 饕餮, which are vulgar characters.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese