一切經音義 49.180

49.180

閱眾 [reviewing the assembly] (The first character is pronounced [y]ue. The Yunying says: "To take full tally within the gate is called 閱." The Zuo zhuan says: "To inspect the chariots and horses before them." The Shuowen jiezi says: "When people are fully counted within a gate, it is called 閱." Composed with 門 [gate] and 兌 as phonetic. The second character 眾 in the Shuowen jiezi means many. Composed with 𠂢, pronounced y- + [?] [-> yin], and horizontal 目 [eyes]; this indicates the sense of a multitude, an ideographic compound).