一切經音義 90.20

English (machine translation) 90.20

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90.20

Dazzling and radiant (煒曄: the first character is pronounced 韋 [wéi] + 鬼 [guǐ] fanqie; the second is pronounced 炎 [yán] + 劫 [jié] fanqie. Wang's commentary on the Songs of Chu says: '煒曄 describes the abundant appearance of red light.' It is also written with 火 as 燁; both are phono-semantic compound characters).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese