一切經音義 77.115

English (machine translation) 77.115

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77.115

Embankments and dikes (隄䧜): The upper character is [read with the fanqie] 弟奚. Wei Zhao says: '隄 means piled-up earth forming a boundary limit.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It means a dike (唐); it takes 阜 as radical and 是 as phonetic.' The lower character is [read with the fanqie] 蕩郎. The Gujin zhengzi states: 'The people of Changsha call an embankment a 䧜; it takes 阜 as radical and 唐 as phonetic.' It is also written as 塘.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese