一切經音義 95.100

English (machine translation) 95.100

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95.100

Veiled and obscure (奄: fanqie 淹儼 [yǎn]. The Mao Commentary on the Shijing says: "奄 means vast." Gu Yewang says: "Also means hidden, shaded and covered." The Shuowen jiezi states: "To cover; vast with surplus; another definition is prolonged; composed of 大 with 申 extended." The lower graph has the fanqie 衰袋 [ài]. Wang Yi's commentary on the Chuci says: "曖 means dark and obscure in appearance." The Shuowen jiezi states: "Composed of 日 ('sun') with 愛 phonetic; also written as 靉").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese