一切經音義 62.166

62.166

Palate bone (腭骨: pronounced with the fanqie 我各; a vulgar character. The Kaosheng says: "The è [腭] is the upper palate of the mouth." The Shuowen says: "The upper slope [阿] of the mouth; written with mouth [口] and valley [谷], pronounced with the fanqie 強略, taking mouth [口] and yawn [欠] to depict the patterning. In antiquity it was called gè [各], now called è [咢]; this is a phonetic shift").