一切經音義 68.55

68.55

Rustic and mean (鄙陋: the first character has the fanqie 碑美; Du Yu's Commentary on the Zuo zhuan says: '鄙 means a border town.' The Shiji says: 'Being far from the capital, it becomes vulgar and rustic.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'Formed from [the semantic component] "settlement" (邑) and has [圖-囗] as phonetic.' The second character has the fanqie 樓豆; the Kaosheng says: '陋 also means vulgar; it means mean/lowly.' The Shuowen jiezi says: '陋 means narrow. Formed from [the semantic component] "hill/mound" (𨸏) and has [└@丙] as phonetic.').