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一切經音義 90.58

English (machine translation) 90.58

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90.58

Teasing and joking (謿謔: the first character is pronounced 讁 [zhé] + 交 [jiāo] fanqie. Gu Yewang says: '謿 means playful mocking.' In the Songs of Chu it is written with 口 as 嘲, with the same gloss. The second character is pronounced 香 [xiāng] + 虐 [nüè] fanqie. The Erya says: '謔 means playful joking.' The Classic of Poetry says: 'Playing and joking.' The Shuowen says: 'It takes 言 as semantic classifier and 虐 as phonetic').

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