一切經音義 75.144

English (machine translation) 75.144

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75.144

Needle and beak (鍼㭰) (fanqie: 汁林 [zhēn]. The Shuowen says: "A needle is used for sewing and piercing; it is analyzed from metal [金] with xian [咸] as the phonetic." It is also written 針. Lower: fanqie 即髓 [zuǐ]; character dictionaries say: "A bird's beak [㭰]." It is also written 觜; the sūtra writes 𭪿, which is a popular form.)

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese