一切經音義 15.48

15.48

Balled food (also written as 團; with the fanqie 段欒 [duàn + luán]; Zheng's commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: '團 means round'; the Kaosheng says: 'To grasp and hold in the fist'; the Mao Commentary on the Shijing says: 'To gather'; it takes the semantic classifier 手 'hand' and the phonetic 專; the character [企-止+皂] properly takes 亽, which has the fanqie 精入 [jīng + rù], and 皂, which has the fanqie 彼立 [bǐ + lì]; considering this, 摶食 means eating various flavours mixed together into balls).