一切經音義 84.144

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84.144

Milfoil and tortoise shell (蓍龜, fanqie: 舒夷): The Cangjiepian says, '蓍 refers to divination stalks.' The Shuowen jiezi says, 'A type of mugwort; in a thousand years it produces three hundred stalks.' Gu Yewang says, 'For divination stalks forty-nine stalks are used.' The Shuowen jiezi says it is formed from 艸 with 耆 as phonetic.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese