一切經音義 98.41

English (machine translation) 98.41

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98.41

Wood-boring insect (dùmù: the first is fanqie 都 + 故 [dū + gù]. The Shuowen jiezi states: "An insect inside wood. It takes the radical 䖵 with a reduced form of 橐 as its phonetic component." 橐 is fanqie 他 + 各 [tā + gè]. Tan Chang also wrote it as 螙, an ideographic representation of an insect within wood).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese