一切經音義 85.173

English (machine translation) 85.173

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85.173

麒麐: the first character is pronounced *qí* (其); the second character has the fanqie *l- / trin* (悋珍反); an auspicious beast that responds when a ruler possesses the virtue of supreme sagacity; the Shuowen says it is a benevolent beast; both characters take the deer classifier (鹿); phono-semantic compound characters.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese