一切經音義 13.100

13.100

如毬 (Like a ball: [qiu has] the fanqie 渠尤; the character dictionaries say: 'A leather pellet, struck and competed for with sticks on foot or on horseback as a game.' It is a phono-semantic character. In the sūtra text, writing it with ju 匊 as 毱 is a vulgar character).