一切經音義 1.141

1.141

千莖（幸庚反考聲莖本也草本曰莖從草巠聲）。

A thousand stalks (千莖: the second character is pronounced *xing* + *geng* in fanqie. The *Kaosheng* states: “A stem is a base; the stalk of a plant is called a stem (jīng). It is composed of the radical *cǎo* (grass) with *jīng* as phonetic.”)