一切經音義 84.115

English (machine translation) 84.115

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84.115

Hold the reins (轡, fanqie: 悲媚): The Mao Commentary on the Shijing says, 'The six reins are like silk; supple are the reins.' The Shuowen jiezi says it is formed from 絲 with 軎 as phonetic. The treatise text writes it with 亡 as 𮝲, a popular form; 軎 has the sound 衛).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese