一切經音義 86.56

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Vast ocean (溟浡: the first [character] is pronounced *ming* [míng]; the second is pronounced *bei* [bó]; Xuanming is the name of the Northern Sea; Bohai [浡澥] is the name of the Eastern Sea; the great sea is unfathomably deep and bottomless, and the measure of its depth cannot be compared to water in a hoof-print or an uneven well).