一切經音義 83.79

English (machine translation) 83.79

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83.79

閹人 (eunuch: yan3 [to cover] + yan2 [flame] fanqie. Zheng's commentary on the Zhouli states: 'Yan (閹) refers to one whose seminal essence is locked away.' The Shuowen jiezi states: 'Castrated servants in the palace who close the doors at dusk.' It takes 門 as radical and yan3 as phonetic).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese