一切經音義 70.95

English (machine translation) 70.95

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70.95

One fathom (一尋: ancient script 𡬰, or written as […], both identical; fanqie 似林 [sì + lín = xín/xún]; refers to the span of a person's two arms as a fathom [xún]; the Huainanzi says: 'A person's height is eight chi; their fathom matches their own height, hence eight chi is called a fathom').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese