一切經音義 47.240

47.240

商賈（始羊反下公戶反行賣曰𧷮坐賣曰賈白虎通曰商之言商度其遠近通四方之物以聚也賈固也固物以待民來求其利也賈亦通語也）。

Merchants (shanggu; fanqie: 始 + 羊 [sh- + -ang → shang]; the second character: fanqie: 公 + 戶 [g- + -u → gu]; traveling and selling is called shang; sitting and selling is called gu; the Baihu tong states: shang means to estimate the distance, to circulate goods from the four directions in order to amass them; gu means to store up, storing up goods to await the people coming to seek them for profit; gu is also a general term).