一切經音義 17.50

17.50

Pits and ravines (坑澗; the first character is [pronounced with the] fanqie kè + [g]ēng. The Erya says: “A kēng is a burial mound/ruin.” Zheng's commentary to the Liji says: “A kēng is a pond or moat.” The Cangjiepian says: “It is a ravine; it also means sunken.” The Shuowen says: “It takes tǔ ‘earth’ as semantic classifier and kàng as phonetic.” Kàng is pronounced gāng. The second character is [pronounced with the] fanqie jiān + [y]àn. The Erya says: “Mountains enclosing water are called a jiàn.” The Shuowen says: “It takes shuǐ ‘water’ as semantic classifier and jiān as phonetic”).