一切經音義 12.337

12.337

匱乏（逵位反毛詩傳曰匱竭也考聲云匱窮也說文匣也從匚音方貴聲也或作櫃下凡法反尚書大傳云行而無資謂之乏乏少也左氏傳反正為乏古文作[足-口+(乏-之)]）。

Deficient and lacking (匱乏; the first character is pronounced kui-wei fan [k-]: The Mao Commentary on the Book of Odes says, "Kui means exhausted." The Kaosheng says, "Kui means destitute." The Shuowen jiezi says, "A case/box"; it is formed from fāng (匚, pronounced fang) with guì (貴) as phonetic; it is also written as 櫃. The second character is pronounced fan-fa fan [f-]: The Shangshu da zhuan says, "To travel without provisions is called fa; fa means scarce." The Zuo zhuan says, "Inverting zheng (正) makes fa (乏)." In ancient script it was written as [足-口+(乏-之)]).