一切經音義 93.190

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93.190

賜縑 [bestowing plain silk]: The second character is read with the fanqie jia + xian (jiān). The Guangya says: 'To spin together is called jiān.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'Jiān is variegated silk fabric. It is composed of the [semantic] radical 'silk' (糸) and the sound jiān (兼).'

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese