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續一切經音義 6.80

English (machine translation) 6.80

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6.80

Hunchbacked and mute (傴瘂: the upper character has the fanqie *yú* + *wǔ* [yǔ]; the *Qieyun* says, "Not extending straight." The *Yupian* says, "Bent." Sun Qingzi says, "The Duke of Zhou was hunchbacked." The lower character is also written in the two forms 𤺘 and 啞, both of which are not the original character; it has the fanqie *wū* + *yǎ* [yǎ]; the *Kaosheng* says, "The mouth unable to speak." The *Shuowen* says it is categorized under "sickness" with *yà* phonetic; *nì* has the fanqie *nǚ* + *è* [nì]).

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