一切經音義 77.194

English (machine translation) 77.194

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77.194

Light carriage (輶: pronounced *yóu*; 軒: *xiē-yán* fanqie; the commentary on the *Mao Shi* says: "A *yóu* is a light carriage, ridden in antiquity by envoys collecting folk songs"; the preface to the *Fangyan* says: "Envoys in light carriages were used to patrol and tour the ten thousand states to collect and inspect regional dialects; towards the end of the Zhou and Qin dynasties, this practice fell into disuse"; they were equivalent to the present-day surveillance commissioners).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese