一切經音義 24.66

24.66

Fènwèi 𭫮穢 (The upper character is fanqie 分問 [fèn]. Gu Yewang says: 'Whatever is unclean, soiled, and filthy is called fèn 糞 [dung]'. The Shuowen jiezi says: 'to discard and remove; using hands (廾) to push away a dustpan to discard rice; the palace tradition explains that it resembles rice but is not rice, having the character shǐ 矢 [excrement]'. Huā 華 means a winnowing basket or scoop, the implement used to discard dung, which is a pictograph. Shǐ 矢 is pronounced shǐ 始, being the ancient character for shǐ 屎. Tuī 推 is fanqie 退雷 [tuī]. Shǐ 屎 is also pronounced shǐ 始; it is also written 糞. In the sūtra it is written with radical tǔ 土 and yì 異 as 𡐢, which does not form a proper character).