一切經音義 31.170

31.170

Drumstick (枹[(豆-一+出)*(乞-乙+(、/又))]: the first character has the sound fú [孚]. Gu Yewang says: 'A 枹 is a mallet used to beat a drum.' The Shuowen says: 'The handle for beating a drum; formed from the tree radical (木) with bāo (包) as phonetic.' The sūtra takes the hand radical, writing 桴 with the sound fū [夫]; the Analects says 'riding a raft (桴) upon the sea,' which is not the meaning of the sūtra text).