一切經音義 92.122

English (machine translation) 92.122

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92.122

Rainbow garments (霓裳: the first character is yì + jī fanqie [ní]. Wang Yi's commentary on the Songs of Chu says: "A 霓 is colored cloud resembling a dragon." Guo's commentary on the Erya says: "The female rainbow is called 霓." The Shuowen says: "霓 is a curved rainbow; it has the rain radical, with an abbreviated 兒 as phonetic." Saying "rainbow garments" means that the flying garments of immortals are like rainbows).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese