一切經音義 87.72

English (machine translation) 87.72

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87.72

璿毫 [jade-fine]: The first character is read with the fanqie xuan + yuan. Guo Pu says: 'Xuan is the name of a gem.' The Mutianzi zhuan says: 'Among the treasures of Mount Chun are xuan pearls.' Gu Yewang says: 'It refers to the pearls contained within clam-shells.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'A fine gem; composed of jade (玉) with rui (睿) as phonetic.' In the large seal script (Zhouwen) it is written as 壑, and in the ancient script (Guwen) as [瑛-央+間]. The second character is read with the fanqie hao + gao.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese