一切經音義 46.19

46.19

Without blame [無咎] (fanqie: 渠九 [jiù]; the Shijing says: "Some are fearful and dread blame [咎]," where 咎 is like crime and fault. The Guangya says: "咎 means evil." The Shuowen says: "咎 means calamity. The graph is composed of 'person' [人] and 'divergent' [各]; when people diverge from one another, crimes and faults are formed. Furthermore, when two people are of one mind, their sharpness can cut through metal; when two people diverge, their misfortune becomes calamity." In ancient script, it was taken as the graph gao in Gaoyao [皐繇]).