續一切經音義 3.99

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Inherit and continue (紹繼: the second character has the fanqie 古 + 詣. The Erya says: "Shao, yin, si, xu, xi, and ji all mean to succeed." The Shuowen jiezi classifies it under the silk radical [糸] and 㡭 as an associative compound; 㡭 is the ancient character for jue (絕, sever). In the sūtra text it is written as 繼 or 継, neither of which forms a correct character).