一切經音義 68.54

68.54

Hand-span (磔手: the first character has the fanqie 知厄; the Guangya says: '磔 means to open; it also means to spread out.' We note: 磔手 means spreading open one's hand and taking the distance reached from the thumb to the middle finger as a measure. Writing it with [the semantic component] "stone" as 磔 is correct. In the treatise it is written with "hand" as 搩, which is pronounced 桀 and does not carry the meaning of the character 磔).