一切經音義 42.153

42.153

持鍬 [Holding a shovel] (qī plus xiāo fanqie. A colloquial character; also written as 鍫; the orthodox form is 鐰; in ancient script written as [厞*斤]; the Cangjie pian writes it as 喿; these are all ancient characters now obsolete and unused. The Erya states: "The qiāo is called shā [spade]." The Fangyan states: "Between Zhao and Wei, a shā is called a qiāo." The Zhengsuyin of Mr. Yan states: "Nowadays people of Jiangnan call it a huáqiāo [ploughshare shovel]; between Ba and Shu, a qiāo is called a shā." The Kaosheng states: "Like today's wooden spade with an iron blade attached to the tip." The Shuowen states: "The iron tip of a spade. Nowadays people of Jiangdong call a qiāo with the sound piàn plus miè fanqie." These are dialectal variations. It derives from 金 [metal] with 秋 as phonetic).