一切經音義 72.44

English (machine translation) 72.44

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72.44

Swallow and chew (吞嚼; pronounced with the fanqie 牆略 [jiáo]. The Huainanzi states: 'Chewing it has no flavour; it cannot go down the throat.' The Guangya states: '嚼 (jiáo) means to eat.' The Wenzi dianshuo states: '嚼 also means to masticate (咀). It takes "mouth" [口] as radical and 爵 as phonetic; 咀 is pronounced with the fanqie 牆預 [jù]').

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese