一切經音義 38.22

38.22

Brick base (甎跗: the upper character is pronounced 尃; the sūtra uses it to mean a small square brick. The lower character is pronounced 夫; it takes “foot” [足] with 付 as its phonetic component. The sūtra's meaning for fu is like a mounded spool or pedestal to set up a peacock's feather upright.)