一切經音義 87.49

English (machine translation) 87.49

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87.49

婉娩 Gentle and compliant: the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 紆 + 阮; the second is pronounced 晚 (wǎn). The Mao Commentary to the Classic of Poetry says: '婉 (wǎn) means compliant.' Zheng Xuan says: '婉 refers to speech being compliant; 娩 (miǎn) speaks of charm, referring to one's countenance.' The Gujin zhengzi states both characters take the woman radical (女); 宛 and 免 are both phonetic.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese