一切經音義 71.177

English (machine translation) 71.177

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71.177

不肖 (Fanqie: 私 + 妙 [xiào]. The Xiao Erya says: "不肖 means not resembling (不似). It means one's flesh and bones do not resemble one's forebears; hence it is called 不肖, referring to weak or wicked sorts. The character derives from 'flesh' (肉) with 'small' (小) as its phonetic.)

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese