Pramāṇa · Search · About · API

續一切經音義 1.84

續一切經音義 1.84

Language
Classical Chinese

1.84

蛺蝶(上兼葉反下恬頰反說文蟲名也一名胡蝶莊周所夢者是也二字竝從虫虫音許鬼反夾枼聲夾音古洽反枼音葉)。

Butterflies (蛺蝶: the first character has the fanqie 兼葉 [jiá]. The second character has the fanqie 恬頰 [dié]. The Shuowen says: "Name of an insect; also called butterfly (胡蝶); that which Zhuang Zhou dreamed of." Both characters are formed from 虫 (insect; 虫 has the fanqie 許鬼 [huǐ]) with 夾 and 枼 as phonetic components. 夾 has the fanqie 古洽 [jiá]; 枼 has the pronunciation 葉 [yè]).

English (machine translation) (machine translation)

Translations (1)