一切經音義 6.101

6.101

Twelve quadrillions (十二京: the second is pronounced with the fanqie 景迎 [jīng]. The Shuowen writes it with 'mouth' [口] as 京; today it is vulgarly written with 'speak' [曰] as 亰, which is incorrect. 'Twelve jing' is a designation in numeration. I note that Liu Hong's Computational Classic of Nine Jing states that in the names of numeration from one up to zai (10⁴⁴) there are fifteen orders of magnitude; jing corresponds to the eighth: thousands, tens of thousands (wan), hundreds of millions (yi), trillions (zhao), quadrillions (jing)).