一切經音義 11.88

11.88

Galloping and racing: the upper character has the fanqie *zhi* + *li*. It is a popular character form, while the standard form is sometimes written as [a variant of] 駞. Although that character is the standard graph, because it has two readings and is also pronounced *tuo*, for now we follow the popular form and write 馳. Gu Yewang states: '馳 (*chi*) means to run.' The *Guangya* states: '馳 means to gallop.' The lower character has the fanqie *chi* + *ying*. Du Yu's commentary on the *Zuo zhuan* states: '騁 (*cheng*) means to gallop; it means to run.' The *Guangya* states: '騁 means to gallop.' The *Shuowen* states: 'It means to drive straight ahead.' It has the horse radical (馬) and 𦥚 as its phonetic component.