一切經音義 73.288

73.288

撮摩（上七活反廣雅云撮持也應邵漢書云四圭曰撮亦三指撮也禮記云天地一撮土多也字林云撮手取也古今正字云亦兩指撮也從手最聲也）。

Pinching and rubbing [撮摩] (the first character is qi + huo fan; the Guangya says: "*Cuo* [撮] is to hold." Ying Shao's Commentary on the Book of Han says: "Four *gui* make a *cuo*; it also means pinching with three fingers." The Book of Rites says: "Heaven and earth are as large as a pinch of soil." The Zilin says: "*Cuo* is taking with the fingers." The Gujin zhengzi says: "It is also taking with two fingers"; it is composed of 手 [hand] with 最 as phonetic.)