一切經音義 90.22

English (machine translation) 90.22

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90.22

Mould and balance (鎔鈞: the first character is pronounced 勇 [yǒng] + 鍾 [zhōng] fanqie. The Hanshu yinyi says: '鎔 is a mould for casting coins.' The Shuowen says: 'A smelter's vessel, a mould for copper filings.' It takes 金 as semantic classifier and 容 as phonetic. The second character is pronounced 癸 [guǐ] + 勻 [yún] fanqie. The Shuowen says: 'Thirty pounds (jin) is called a 鈞.' It takes 金 as semantic classifier and 勻 as phonetic, 勻 being pronounced 尹 [yǐn] + 遵 [zūn] fanqie).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese