一切經音義 68.16

English (machine translation) 68.16

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68.16

Dreading and fearing (忌憚: the first character has the fanqie 其記; Du Yu's Commentary on the Zuo zhuan says: '忌 means to fear; it also means to revere.' The second character has the fanqie 檀且; Zheng's Commentary on the Mao Odes says: '憚 means difficult; it also means to fear.' The Shuowen jiezi says that both characters are formed from the semantic component "mind" (心), with 己 and 單 functioning as phonetics respectively).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese