一切經音義 72.99

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72.99

Foul and astringent (臭澀: the first character [臭] is fanqie 醜狩 [chòu]. The Shuowen says: "That beasts track by scent and know their traces is due to dogs; hence it is formed from 'dog' [犬] and 'nose' [自], 自 being the ancient character for nose." It is an ideogrammatic compound. The second character [澀] is fanqie 森戢 [sè], which was already fully explained above in Fascicle 4).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese