一切經音義 68.18

68.18

Branches and trunk (枝榦: the second character has the fanqie 于岸; Wang Yi's Commentary on the Songs of Chu says: '幹 means trunk/body.' The Guangya says: 'Trunk/root.' The character dictionaries also say: 'Branch.' The Wenziqu shuo says: 'The branches and trunk of a tree; it means trunk. It is formed from [the semantic component] "tree/wood" (木) and has 倝 as phonetic'—倝 being pronounced the same as above. In the treatise it is written as 擀, which is the name of a tree and does not fit this meaning; it is also written as 幹).