一切經音義 82.6

English (machine translation) 82.6

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82.6

閹竪 Palace eunuchs (the first character is pronounced [in fanqie] 奄 + 炎; the second is pronounced [in fanqie] 殊 + 主; Zheng's commentary on the Zhouli says: "An 閹 is one whose seminal essence is locked away; today they are called palace men." The Shuowen says: "豎 means a palace gatekeeper or door-closer; formed with 'gate' (門) as semantic and 奄 as phonetic; 豎 is formed with 臤 and 豆 as phonetic;" the preface writes it with the popular character 竪).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese