一切經音義 8.75

8.75

抑挫（上於力反賈逵注國語抑止也杜注左傳抑損也如淳注史記抑屈也楚辭曰屈心而抑志是也說文作[卬-ㄗ+(ㄗ@、)]反印字也[卬-ㄗ+(ㄗ@、)]音一力反印音一刃反石經加手從印作抑變體字也下祖過反賈逵注國語云折鋒曰挫說文挫摧也從手從坐聲也）。

Suppressed and crushed (抑挫: the first character is pronounced 於 + 力 fanqie; Jia Kui's commentary on the Guoyu says: 抑 means to stop; Du's commentary on the Zuo Tradition says: 抑 means to damage/diminish; Ru Chun's commentary on the Shiji says: 抑 means to bend/subdue; the Songs of Chu says: 'Bending one's mind and suppressing one's will', which is this; Shuowen writes it as [卬-ㄗ+(ㄗ@、)], an inverted 印; [卬-ㄗ+(ㄗ@、)] is pronounced 一 + 力 fanqie, while 印 is pronounced 一 + 刃 fanqie; the Stone Classics added the hand classifier to 印 to write 抑, which is a variant character; the second character is pronounced 祖 + 過 fanqie; Jia Kui's commentary on the Guoyu says: breaking a point is called 挫; Shuowen says: 挫 means to break; it takes shou [手] as its classifier and 坐 as its phonetic).