一切經音義 62.175

62.175

Corpse and skeleton (屍骸: the first is pronounced with the fanqie 始之. The Book of Rites says: "The dead lying on a bed is called shī [屍]." Zheng's commentary says: "Shī means laid out; it refers to the bodily form still being present." The Shuowen says: "Shī means dead; it takes corpse [尸] and death [死] as components." The second is pronounced with the fanqie 蟹皆. Liu Zhao's commentary on the Gongyang zhuan says: "Hái [骸] means bones." Gu Yewang says: "Hái is the general name for the bones of the body." The Shuowen says: "Shin bones of the body; it takes bone [骨] as semantic classifier and hài [亥] as phonetic").