一切經音義 18.24

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以索亡珠 (fanqie 所革 [suǒ]; a popular character, properly written as 𣑇; Fangyan: "索 means to search for, obtain; a borrowed phonetic character; its original pronunciation is the fanqie 桑洛 [suò], which is not adopted here; Shuowen jiezi: "Plants whose stems and leaves can be made into ropes [索]; hence classified under [山/小] [pronounced with the fanqie 普末, pō] and radical 糸; a pictographic character"; nowadays in clerical script it is universally written as 索, which is a variant form).