一切經音義 95.110

English (machine translation) 95.110

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95.110

Twisted tree (蟠: fanqie 伴寒 [pán]. Zheng says: "Coiled." Gu Yewang says: "Curving and winding." According to the Shanhaijing: "The coiled tree is a giant tree. In the great wilderness of the northeast there is a great abyss; in the abyss is an islet, and upon the islet is a tree—that is the coiled tree." It is also called the coiled peach tree, or Dushuo. The Shuowen jiezi states: "Composed of 虫 with 番, which is pronounced pān; 度 is pronounced in the fanqie 唐路 [dù]; 索 is pronounced in the fanqie 桑各 [suǒ]").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese