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一切經音義 8.59

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8.59

Envy and jealousy (嫉妒: the first character is pronounced 情 + 逸 fanqie; the second character is pronounced 當 + 故 fanqie; Wang Yi's commentary on the Songs of Chu says: 'Resenting the worthy is called 嫉; resenting beauty is called 妒'; Zheng's commentary on the Preface to the Classic of Poetry says: 'Being jealous on account of beauty is called 妒; being jealous on account of conduct is called 忌'; Shuowen says: it takes nü [女] as its classifier and 戶 as its phonetic).

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