一切經音義 78.85

English (machine translation) 78.85

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78.85

Tearful (泫然) (the upper character is [pronounced] 玄 + 詃 [xuán-jiàn > xuàn]; the Book of Rites states: "Confucius shed tears copiously"; the Yunquan says: "泫 refers to the sparkle of dew"; King Aśoka shed tears copiously; the Gujin zhengzi says it takes the "water" radical [水] and has 玄 for phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese