一切經音義 10.148

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10.148

City moat (城塹: *qi[ān]-y[àn]*. Gu refers to city walls and moats as 壍. Gu Yewang says: "Now the trench and pit outside a city wall." The character dictionaries say: "A city moat." The *Shuowen jiezi* says: "A pit; composed of 土 with 斬 phonetic." Sometimes written with 漸 as 壍; both are identical).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese