一切經音義 100.87

English (machine translation) 100.87

Language: English

100.87

Wooden stockade (木柵: the lower character has the pronunciation cè. Foreigners living in mountains and wilderness erect wood to make walls, called wooden stockades (zhà/cè). The character zhà is formed from 木 (wood) with 冊 phonetic; 冊 has the same pronunciation as above, picturing bound bamboo slips).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese