一切經音義 92.138

English (machine translation) 92.138

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92.138

Hall plinth (堂礎: the second character is pronounced like 楚 [chǔ]. The Huainanzi says: "When clouds steam from the mountains, the pillar plinths become moist." Xu Shen says: "The people of Chu call the base-stone (磶) of a pillar a 礎." The Gujin zhengzi says: "It has the stone radical, with 楚 as phonetic." 磶 is pronounced like 昔 [xī]. Note that a 礎 is a stone foundation plinth (碇); 碇 is dīng + nìng fanqie [dìng]).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese