一切經音義 15.159

15.159

匍匐（上步模反下朋墨反考聲云手據地伏地也說文手行也伏也並從勹形聲字也勹音包）。

Crawling on hands and knees (匍匐; upper [character] *bù* + *mó* fanqie, lower *péng* + *mò* fanqie. The *Kaosheng* states: "Placing hands on the ground and prostrating on the ground." The *Shuowen jiezi* states: "Walking with hands; prostrating. Both derive from the *bāo* 勹 radical and are phono-semantic characters." 勹 is pronounced *bāo*).