一切經音義 1.56

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Jade batons [珪璋] (First character: gui-hui fan [guī]; Shuowen: "A jade token of auspicious authority, round at the top and square at the bottom, held by dukes, marquises, and earls; composed of doubled 'earth' [土]." Zitong: "According to the Yin rites, enfeoffed lords had three ranks: dukes, marquises, and earls all had doubled earth [territory], hence they held the gui [珪]; viscounts and barons had no doubled earth, hence had no gui; it is an ancient character." Second character: zhi-yang fan [zhāng]; Shuowen: "Half a gui is a zhang; composed of 'jade' [玉] with 'zhang' [章] phonetic; hui [畦] is pronounced hui-gui fan").