一切經音義 57.28

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溝港（上苟侯反鄭注周禮云通水於川曰溝考工記云廣四尺深四尺曰溝也考聲云亦水注谷也說文溝瀆也從水冓音古候反下江項反文字集略云水別流也考聲云水派流而不通也從水巷聲也）。

溝港 ('ditches and waterways'; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 苟 + 侯. Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Zhouli says: "Conveying water into a river is called a 'gou' (溝)." The Kaogongji says: "Four feet wide and four feet deep is called a 'gou'." The Kaosheng says: "It also refers to water pouring into a ravine." The Shuowen says: "A 'gou' is a ditch; it is formed from [the radical] 水 with 冓—pronounced 古 + 候—as the phonetic component." The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 江 + 項. The Wenzi jilüe says: "A tributary stream." The Kaosheng says: "A branch of water that flows without connecting through; it is formed from [the radical] 水 with 巷 as the phonetic component").