一切經音義 75.10

English (machine translation) 75.10

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75.10

Hold a counting tally [持籌] (pronounced *chang* + *liu* [chóu]. The *Shuowen* states: 'Chou means suan [tally/calculation]; it takes "bamboo" [竹] as semantic classifier and has *shou* [壽] as phonetic component.' In the sūtra text it is written with 奇 as 𥯽, which is an erroneous writing).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese