一切經音義 83.46

English (machine translation) 83.46

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83.46

八紘 (The eight cords / eight outermost bounds: pronounced *héng*; the Huainanzi says: "Knowing the form of the eight outer cords and nine tracts." Xu's commentary says: "*Hong* means cords." The Shuowen [says]: "Formed with the silk radical and phonetic *hong*." *Hong* has the same pronunciation as above. In the transmission written with the roof radical as 宏 means vast).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese