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一切經音義 81.83

English (machine translation) 81.83

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81.83

Plane and chisel (剗鏨: the first character is pronounced *chu* + *chan* [chǎn]. The *Boya* says: '剗 is like to pare (削).' The *Shenglei* writes it as 鏟, both sound and meaning being identical. The second character is pronounced *can* + *dan* [zàn]. The *Guangya* says: 'Carving with an engraving chisel is called 鏨.' The *Shuowen jiezi* says: '鏨 means a cold chisel; it is formed from the "metal" radical (金) with *zhan* (斬) as the phonetic component.' 鐫 is pronounced *zi* + *quan* [juān]).

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