一切經音義 24.294

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一磔手（張革反廣雅磔猶開也又張也一磔手者張其手取大指中指所極為量也古今正字從石桀聲經本作搩音傑非義也）。

One span of the hand (the second character is *zhang* + *ge* [zhé]. The Guangya says: "*Zhe* is like opening; it also means stretching." 'One span of the hand' means stretching one's hand and taking the maximum distance between the thumb and the middle finger as a measure. The Gujin zhengzi gives it under 'stone' [石] with *jie* [桀] phonetic. The base text of the sūtra has 搩, pronounced *jie* [jié], which is not the correct sense).