一切經音義 82.121

English (machine translation) 82.121

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82.121

大賈 (great merchant): Pronounced gǔ; a popular variant. A merchant who sells goods sitting in a shop. To pronounce it with the fanqie 加 (jiā) + 雅 (yǎ) [jiǎ] is incorrect. It takes 貝 as semantic component and is topped by [大-一+(土*土)] (pronounced gǔ), which is an ancient character for 估 (trader).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese