一切經音義 77.51

English (machine translation) 77.51

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77.51

噓唏 [sigh and sob] (The first character has the fanqie 希居 [xū]. Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Liji says: '噓 is the sound of deep gasping.' [佫-口+思] is pronounced 敗 [bài]. Gu Yewang says: 'Exhaling from the mouth; the canonical texts say 噓.' The second character has the fanqie 許冀 [xī], meaning crying in pain. To mourn without shedding tears is called 唏. The Shuowen jiezi says that both characters are derived from 口, with 虛 and 希 as their respective phonetics).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese