一切經音義 67.147

67.147

Coarse contact (麁觸: [麁 is] *qie* and *hu* *fanqie* [= *cu*]; the *Guangya* says: "*Cu* means large." Furthermore, man's alertness and guarding are also called *cu*; the nature of deer when feeding and resting is to turn their backs to each other, fearing harm from humans and beasts, and alertness is like this too; thus the character is composed of three deer (鹿), which is the semantic sense of the character).