一切經音義 81.87

English (machine translation) 81.87

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81.87

Moaning and groaning (呻吟: the first character is pronounced *shi* + *zhen* [shēn]. Zheng [Xuan]'s commentary on the *Book of Rites* says: '呻 is also to groan (吟).' The *Cang Jie pian* says: 'Moaning and groaning (呻吟) means sighing in grief.' The *Shuowen jiezi* states that both characters are formed from the "mouth" radical (口)).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese