續一切經音義 2.17

English (machine translation) 2.17

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2.17

Vapour / fragrant mist (氤氳) (The first [character] has the fanqie yú + zhēn [yīn]. The second has the sound of the fanqie yú + yún [yūn]. The Qieyun states: 'These two characters mean the primordial pneuma is flourishing; also the appearance of fragrance spreading.' The Shuowen states: 'They derive from pneuma (气) with yīn (因) and wēn (昷) as phonetics; they are phono-semantic characters.' 气 has the sound qì, and 昷 has the sound wēn).

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