一切經音義 61.113

61.113

角力 (for the first character, the fanqie is 江 + 岳. "Wrestling" (角力) means two people competing in strength and testing who is stronger, just as two horns of an ox or deer strive against each other in length. In the Vinaya text it is written with the hand radical as 捔, which is incorrect; there is no such character, and one should generally just use the character 角, with the meaning as stated above. The Shuowen says: "Beast horns; pictographic. A horn is like a knife, hence it takes 刀 with an abbreviated form of 魚 as phonetic").