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一切經音義 78.201

English (machine translation) 78.201

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78.201

Wishing to bite (欲齧; the second character has the fanqie 研結 [n- + -(i)è]; the Shuowen jiezi says: "齧 means to bite; it takes 'teeth' (齒) with 㓞 as phonetic; 㓞 has the fanqie 慳八 [qi- + -ā]"; in the sūtra it is written with 'mouth' (口) as 嚙, which is a vulgar character and not orthodox).

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