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少欲者﹒少欲俱﹒相類﹒相聚﹒相應﹒相可 少欲 is alpeccha, so 少欲者 is someone who has little or moderate wishes. 俱 is 俱全 (completely). 少欲俱, is completely full of alpeccha. a math equation metaphor:ａ1+ａ2+ａ3+ａ4 = a (1+ …

色生﹒生故計是我﹒非﹒不生 the logic is: if a=true, then b=true 非 is used to indicate condition a = false, 不 is to show that condition b = not true. so, rūpa, (色, one of pañca-skandha 五蕴) appears (生), by t …

it should be treated as remark by someone, that the original text had missing characters / texts.

死牢 is a place for death sentence prisoner

Is there any special name for, say, Indochina, Philippines, Malaisia and Indonesia? ancient chinese names of kingdoms / nations in this area, here're some: 安南, 占城 ~ somewhere in today's vietnam …

the 四庫全書 (imperial collection of four), 文淵閣 version, had the book 葬書. the author was marked as "郭璞" of 晉 dynasty. my mistake here, as another comment indicated, the last fourth character is "功", not …

Aye yai ya sounds like "哎也也" http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,142082,142600 the lah at the end, well, a common singlish term: "啦" then, the "sin soco", no ideas yet, any more hin …

賜金帛・加秩二等 the story is from 太平廣記・精察一・蘇無名; happened in 唐 dynasty. according to 通典・職官十七・祿秩, division 15: 貞觀二年制，有上考者乃給祿。其後遂定給祿俸之制：以民地租充之。京官正一品，七百石。從一品，六百石。正二品，五百石。從二品，四百六十石。正三品，四百石。從三品，三百六十石。正四品，三百石。從四 …

i think this style is called “提梁壺”, roughly means “lifting roof beam kettle” that the handle of the kettle is like a roof beam, above the kettle body further, it’s “硬提梁”, that the handle is made toget …

the internet archive has the book 瀛環志畧, in volume 4, "白峩" was used to translate belarus: https://archive.org/stream/02087085.cn#page/n43/mode/1up this book was published in 1849. the 峩 (u+5ce9) w …

since “classical chinese” is specified, i would recommend: 積善離殃 夫積者，accumulate 也；善者，goodness 也 離者，leave 也， go away 也；殃者，禍也，disaster 也 but what should the subject be? in classical chinese, subject of …

an unscientific approach: the 國語辭典 , of taiwan, has about 164489 entries, using grep + wildcards, one may find: 12540⋯7.62% are 1 character entry (^.$) e.g. 八, 扒 87516⋯53.20% are 2 characters entry ( …

的 is exception? you're kidding :( the initial meaning of 的 is "bullseye of target for archery" http://dict.revised.moe.edu.tw/cgi-bin/cbdic/gsweb.cgi?o=dcbdic&searchid=W00000002148 you must define …

are you looking for "contradictory", in mathematic, it would be: "contradictory opposite"　"矛盾否定" "contradictory propositions"　"矛盾命題" 教育研究院, of taiwan has documentations of bilingual academic terms, …

i would suggest: 其妍也﹒如冬之日﹒和煦可人 其智也﹒若夜之鴞﹒慎默覃思 here's a brief explanation: his/her's beauty (妍), is like (如) the winter sun (冬之日), warm (和煦) & pleasant (可人) his/her's wisdom (智), is like (若) an owl …