一切經音義 95.159

English (machine translation) 95.159

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95.159

龍衮 ('Dragon robe'; the fanqie is 古 + 本 [gǔn]. Zheng's commentary on the Classic of Poetry says: 'Garment painted with dragons.' Guo's commentary on the Erya says: 'A ceremonial robe with patterned borders.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'When the Son of Heaven offers sacrifice to the ancestral kings, coiling dragons are embroidered on the lower skirts; one coiled dragon winds along the hem; composed with "clothing" (衣) as semantic element and 公 as phonetic element.')

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese