微辞 (微辭) wēi cí

wēi cí phrase subtle words
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Collocation: from 文心雕龍·徵聖 “The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons”, Evidence from the Sages by 劉勰 Liu Xie (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. in Liu and Shi 2015, loc. 1440)

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• Scroll 1 Notes on the Viṁśatikāvṛtti 成唯識論述記 — count: 1
• Scroll 1 Le Bang Wenlei 樂邦文類 — count: 1
• Scroll 7 Collection of records concerning the Chinese Buddhist Canon (Chu San Zang Ji Ji) 出三藏記集 — count: 1
• Scroll 10 The Great Tang Dynasty Record of the Western Regions 大唐西域記 — count: 1 , has English translation