verb

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) to gloss; to explain ancient words
  2. 2 exegesis

Examples

Tā zhuānmén cóngshì xùngǔ yánjiū.
He specializes in classical exegesis.
Zhè bù shū duì gǔ zì jìnxíng le xiángxì de gǔjiě.
This book provides detailed glosses on ancient characters.

Tips

register
Almost only seen in the compound xùngǔ — the traditional Chinese philological discipline of explaining the meaning of ancient words. The 《说文解字》 entry says = 'glossing ancient speech', and 《》 of the Han dynasty is the canonical model.
memory
Speech radical plus (ancient) — speaking about the ancient: explaining old words.

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