一切經音義 65.82

65.82

購贖 (The upper character is pronounced with the fanqie 鈎 + 候 [gòu]. The Guangya says: "購 means to compensate." The Shuowen says: "To redeem an item with wealth." It is a phono-semantic character. The lower character is pronounced with the fanqie 常 + 燭 [shú]. The Shangshu says: "Gold was made the punishment of redemption." Wang Su's commentary says: "Redeeming a crime with gold." The Shuowen says it takes the cowrie radical [貝] and has 𧷓 as its phonetic component; 𧷓 has the sound of 育 [yù], and consists of 冏 and [山/六]; [山/六] is the ancient character for 陸. Today writing it with 賣 is an error, but it is truly difficult to correct.)