一切經音義 12.337

12.337

Deficient and lacking (匱乏; the first character is pronounced kui-wei fan [k-]: The Mao Commentary on the Book of Odes says, "Kui means exhausted." The Kaosheng says, "Kui means destitute." The Shuowen jiezi says, "A case/box"; it is formed from fāng (匚, pronounced fang) with guì (貴) as phonetic; it is also written as 櫃. The second character is pronounced fan-fa fan [f-]: The Shangshu da zhuan says, "To travel without provisions is called fa; fa means scarce." The Zuo zhuan says, "Inverting zheng (正) makes fa (乏)." In ancient script it was written as [足-口+(乏-之)]).