豨苓
Chinese
[edit]| swine | fungus; tuber | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (豨苓) | 豨 | 苓 | |
| simp. #(豨苓) | 豨 | 苓 | |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄌㄧㄥˊ
- Tongyong Pinyin: silíng
- Wade–Giles: hsi1-ling2
- Yale: syī-líng
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiling
- Palladius: силин (silin)
- Sinological IPA (key): /ɕi⁵⁵ liŋ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Middle Chinese: xj+j leng
Noun
[edit]豨苓
- (archaic) Alternative name for 豬苓／猪苓 (zhūlíng).
- 若夫商財賄之有亡，計班資之崇庳，忘己量之所稱，指前人之瑕疵，是所謂詰匠氏之不以杙為楹，而訾醫師以昌陽引年，欲進其豨苓也。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
- From: c. 813, Han Yu,《進學解》 (On Advancing Scholarship), translated by Charles Hartman
- Ruòfú shāng cáihuì zhī yǒuwú, jì bānzī zhī chóngbì, wàng jǐ liàng zhī suǒ chēng, zhǐ qiánrén zhī xiácī, shì suǒwèi jié jiàngshì zhī bù yǐ yì wéi yíng, ér zǐ yīshī yǐ chāngyáng yǐnnián, yù jìn qí xīlíng yě. [Pinyin]
- And so, were he now to argue the extent or not of his wealth, to reckon the status of his rank and estate, to forget what best befits his own gifts, and to mark his elders as evils incarnate, all such were to query a master craftsman who would not use a pear-tree stake for a column head, or to malign a master physician who prescribed sweet fag for long life and then take chinaroot instead.
若夫商财贿之有亡，计班资之崇庳，忘己量之所称，指前人之瑕疵，是所谓诘匠氏之不以杙为楹，而訾医师以昌阳引年，欲进其豨苓也。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]