一切經音義 92.138

92.138

堂礎（下音楚淮南子云山雲蒸柱礎潤許叔重曰楚人謂柱磶為礎古今正字從石楚聲磶音昔按礎即石碇也碇音丁寗反也）。

Hall plinth (堂礎: the second character is pronounced like 楚 [chǔ]. The Huainanzi says: "When clouds steam from the mountains, the pillar plinths become moist." Xu Shen says: "The people of Chu call the base-stone (磶) of a pillar a 礎." The Gujin zhengzi says: "It has the stone radical, with 楚 as phonetic." 磶 is pronounced like 昔 [xī]. Note that a 礎 is a stone foundation plinth (碇); 碇 is dīng + nìng fanqie [dìng]).