一切經音義 11.169

11.169

刀𨮼（之壬反廣雅𨮼刺也說文箴所以縫衣也字書云引線䥫也經文作鍼亦通正體從金箴之壬反聲也有作針者俗字也）。

Knife and needle (daozhen: [second syllable] zhi-ren fan. The Guangya says: 'Zhen means to pierce.' The Shuowen says: 'A zhen is an instrument used to sew garments.' The Zishu says: 'Iron that leads thread.' In sūtra texts it is written as 鍼, which is also acceptable. The standard form takes the radical 金 with 箴 [zhi-ren fan] as phonetic. Those who write it as 針 are using a vulgar character.)