一切經音義 89.22

English (machine translation) 89.22

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89.22

燉煌 (Dunhuang): The first character is read fanqie *d[ùn]-[h]ún* [dùn]. The second character has the sound of *huáng*. The *Hanshu* states: 'Dunhuang Commandery is Shazhou; it was established in the first year of Emperor Wu by dividing Jiuquan Commandery.' Du Lin's commentary states: 'Dunhuang was regarded as ancient Guazhou.' The *Gujin zhengzi* states: 'Both characters of 燉煌 are classified under the radical *huǒ* (fire); they are phono-semantic characters.'

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese