一切經音義 15.370

15.370

這起（上言件反字書這迎也案此這字亦是僻用也但直云迎起或云迎或云[宋-木+(夆-┬+下)]起於義何傷而乃曲求用此僻文強書這字徒自矜衒博識多聞詿誤後學轉讀尋覽之流無不驚眴也或也小人自矜拙為筆授非君子之見也）。

Rising to welcome (這起: the upper character is [fanqie] 言件反. Dictionaries state: '這 means to welcome.' Upon examination, this character 這 is also an eccentric usage. One could simply have said 迎起 [rise to welcome], or 迎, or [宋-木+(夆-┬+下)]起; what harm would there have been to the meaning? Yet they went out of their way to seek out this obscure character and stubbornly wrote 這, vainly showing off their erudition and misleading later students, causing all who recite and read it to be startled and bewildered. It was either petty individuals boasting of their clumsy scribal work, not the perspective of an upright gentleman).