一切經音義 8.76

English (machine translation) 8.76

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8.76

Previously broken (先折: the first character is pronounced 星 + 延 fanqie; Shuowen says: to advance forward; it is derived from the ancient character 㞢 and from 人; the second character is pronounced 章 + 熱 fanqie; Kaosheng says: 折 means to break down, to snap off; Shuowen says: the standard form is derived from double 屮 (pronounced 丑 + 列 fanqie) and 斤, explaining that double 屮 means grass, and cutting grass with an axe (斤) is called 折; Small Seal script joined the two 屮 characters, mistakenly turning them into the ancient [屮/(艸-屮)], and thus took shou [手] to form 折, pronounced with the sound of 手).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese