一切經音義 41.97

41.97

Minute hair and fraction (毫氂: the upper character has the fanqie hú + gāo [háo]; the lower character has the fanqie lì + chí [lí]. Examining the Jiuzhang suanshu, it states: 'In all measurements, the beginning starts with a hū; ten hū make a sī; ten sī make a háo; ten háo make a lí'. Shuowen jiezi says: 'The two characters háo and lí both derive from 毛 "hair"; háo has 豪 abbreviated; lí has 𣺶 abbreviated; both are phono-semantic characters'. The present sūtra writes it as 毫𣀗, which fails to understand the meaning of the character and is mistaken).