一切經音義 97.204

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97.204

"Didi" (狄鞮): [鞮 has the fanqie] ding + xi (di). The Book of Rites says: 'The peoples of the five regions do not understand each other's languages and have different desires; those who communicate their desires to the west are called didi.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It has the leather radical (革) and shi (是) phonetic.'

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese