一切經音義 68.52

English (machine translation) 68.52

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68.52

Timid and inferior (怯劣: the first character has the fanqie 久業; Gu Yewang says: '怯 means fearful.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'Formed from [the semantic component] "mind" (心) and has 去 as phonetic.' The second character has the fanqie 臠惙; the Shuowen jiezi says: '劣 means weak. Formed from "few" (少) and "strength" (力); it is an associative compound.').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese