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一切經音義 96.59

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96.59

閩藪: The first character has the fanqie phonetic notation mi (密) + bin (斌). The Zhouli states: 'The Officer of the Regions oversees the people of the Seven Min; seven was the number of tributary states under the Zhou.' The Shanhaijing states: 'The Min dwell in the sea.' The Shuowen jiezi states: 'A serpent race of the Southern Yue. Analyzed as following the semantic component "insect" (虫) and the phonetic component men (門).' The second character has the fanqie phonetic notation su (蘇) + kou (口).

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