一切經音義 68.17

English (machine translation) 68.17

Language: English

68.17

Prison (囹圄: the first character has the fanqie 歷丁; the second character has the fanqie 魚舉. Zheng Xuan's Commentary on the Book of Rites says: '囹圄 is that which is used to detain and guard prisoners, like modern-day separate prisons.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It means to guard.' Both characters are formed from the semantic component "enclosure" (囗), with 令 and 吾 acting as phonetics; 囗 is pronounced 韋).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese