一切經音義 36.40

36.40

衒賣: The first character has the fanqie xuan + juan (xuàn). The *Shuowen* says: 'Walking about offering goods for sale; composed of the 'movement' (行) semantic and xuan (玄) phonetic.' Sometimes written with the 'speech' radical as 𧗳. The second character has the fanqie mai + bai (mài). The *Shuowen* says: 'Bringing forth goods; composed of chu (出) and the gu (賈) phonetic.' Modern vulgar usage writes it with 'earth' (土) as 賣, which is a corrupt variant form. Furthermore, the character 'to buy' (買) is composed of 'four' (四) and 'cowrie' (貝) as an ideographic compound; modern vulgar usage writing it with 'dish' (皿) is an error.