一切經音義 6.32

6.32

大族 ("great clan": [fanqie] 叢斛 [zú]. Liji says: "Five households make a bǐ; bǐ means neighbors. Five bǐ make a lǘ; lǘ means a neighborhood. Four lǘ make a zú, so that they assist one another in burial." Erya says: "A father's first-cousin brothers form a clan." Zheng's commentary says: "Zú means gathering." Jixun says: "Relatives; originally of the same surname." Shuowen says: "An arrowhead." Its original pronunciation has the fanqie 子錄 [zú]; it is a phonetic loan character, composed of 㫃 and 矢; 㫃 has the fanqie 焉謇 [yǎn].)