一切經音義 72.142

English (machine translation) 72.142

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72.142

Barren and stony ground 磽确 (The first character has the fanqie 巧交 [qiāo]. The second character has the fanqie 腔角 [què]. Gu Yewang says: 'Qiao means hard.' Mencius says: 'The soil is rich or barren,' this is it. The Huainanzi says: 'Contending to dwell on barren ground.' The Shenglei says: 'Qiaoque means thin, hard, and rocky.' The Wenzidian shuo states: 'Que means lean and barren land.' The Shuowen states: 'Qiao and que also mean rocky and thin.' Both are composed of "stone" (石) with "yao" (堯) and "jiao" (角) as their respective phonetics. Qiao (礊) has the fanqie 口戹 [kè].)

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese