一切經音義 68.178

68.178

Shaft and yoke (轅軶): the first character is [pronounced with the fanqie] 遠 + 元. The Kaogong ji says: 'Whenever making carriage shafts, triple the height of the wheels, and divide their length into two parts, with two in front and one behind.' The Shuowen says: 'Yuán is the carriage pole (zhōu).' The second character is 嚶 + 革. Zheng Xuan's Commentary to the Kaogong ji says: 'The yoke (è) is the wood at the tip of the shaft that presses on the ox's neck.' The Shuowen says: 'Both characters take the radical 車 (carriage), and 袁 and 戹 are respectively phonetic.' In the treatise it is written with the vulgar character 軛. Zhōu (輈) has the fanqie 肘 + 留.