一切經音義 37.109

37.109

口道: Has the fanqie [t]áo + [l]ǎo. Zheng['s] commentary on the Book of Rites says: "道 means to speak, or to utter." The Shuowen [jiezi] says: "A path traveled; composed of the movement radical (辵) and 首 phonetic." In ancient script it is composed of 首 and 寸, written as [(首-目+日)*寸]. In the scriptures it is written with the mouth radical as 噵, which is incorrect; upon searching all character books, no such character 噵 exists.