一切經音義 93.178

English (machine translation) 93.178

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93.178

八埏 [the eight extremities]: The second character is read with the fanqie yan + zhan (yán). The commentary on the Hanshu says: 'Yan (埏) means the extreme borders of the earth.' The Gujin zhengzi says it is composed of the [semantic] radical 'earth' (土) and the sound yan (延). In the transmitted text it is written with the [radical] 'hand' (手), which is incorrect.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese