一切經音義 77.116

77.116

亟於（上兢力反鄭注毛詩云亟急也爾雅速也說文義同也從人從口從又從二二天地也言人生天地間口手最急會意字也又音器今不取）。

More urgent than (亟於): The upper character is [read with the fanqie] 兢力. Zheng's commentary on the Mao Shijing says: '亟 means urgent.' The Erya says it means rapid. The Shuowen jiezi gives the same meaning; it takes 人, 口, 又, and 二 as components. The character 二 denotes heaven and earth; it expresses that among humanity born between heaven and earth, the mouth and hands are the most urgent, being an ideographic compound character. It also has the sound 器, which is not adopted here.