一切經音義 76.17

English (machine translation) 76.17

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76.17

斑駁 (fanqie: 補 + 角). The Book of Han says: 'White and black intermingled is called 駁 (mottled).' The Shuowen says: 'Impure colour.' It takes its semantic classifier from 馬 (horse) and 爻 is its phonetic. The scripture writing 駿 is the name of a beast and is not the meaning of the scripture.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese