一切經音義 86.140

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86.140

Eunuch 閹人 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 奄 + 炎; Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: "A yanren is what is now called a palace gatekeeper or eunuch (huangmen)." The Shuowen jiezi says: "One who closes palace gates, a gatekeeper eunuch servant"; it takes the gate radical 門 and the phonetic 奄; 閽 is pronounced 昏).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese