一切經音義 95.172

95.172

緘默（上古咸反說文云緘束篋也從糸咸聲）。

緘默 ('Maintaining silence'; the first character has the fanqie 古 + 咸 [jiān]. The Shuowen jiezi says: 'Jian means to bind a trunk; composed with "silk" (糸) as semantic element and 咸 as phonetic element.')