一切經音義 8.52

English (machine translation) 8.52

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8.52

Foul and filthy (臭穢: the first character is pronounced 昌 + 獸 fanqie; Yupian says: 臭 is a general name for the odour of all things; Shuowen says: beasts that run are tracked by dogs through their smell; it is composed of quan [犬] and zi [自]; 自 is the ancient character for nose; the sūtra writing it with si [死] as 臰 is incorrect; the second character is pronounced 於 + 喙 fanqie; Gu Yewang says: 穢 means unclean; Yunying says: 穢 means foul/evil; Kaosheng says: overgrown with weeds; it is also written as 薉; Shuowen says: it takes he [禾] as its classifier and 歲 as its phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese