一切經音義 72.41

72.41

牆壍（上匠羊反顧野王云牆垣也左傳云人之有牆以敝惡也說文云牆垣蔽也從嗇爿聲也嗇音使力反爿音牆下千艷反廣雅云壍坑也顧野王云今謂城池為塹也古今正字從土斬聲也）。

Walls and moats (牆壍; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 匠羊 [qiáng]. Gu Yewang states: '牆 (qiáng) means a partition wall.' The Zuozhuan states: 'That people have walls is to screen off wickedness.' The Shuowen jiezi states: '牆 means a wall screen. It takes 嗇 as radical and 爿 as phonetic; 嗇 is pronounced with the fanqie 使力 [shì], and 爿 is pronounced 牆 [qiáng].' The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 千艷 [qiàn]. The Guangya states: '壍 (qiàn) means a pit.' Gu Yewang states: 'Nowadays city moats are called 塹.' The Gujin zhengzi states that it takes 'earth' [土] as radical and 斬 as phonetic).