一切經音義 72.26

72.26

Apertures and fissures (竅隙; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 輕要 [qiào]. Zheng Xuan's Commentary on the Book of Rites states: '竅 (qiào) means a hole.' The Shuowen jiezi states: 'It means an opening. It takes "cave" [穴] as radical and 敫 as phonetic; 敫 is pronounced 叫 [jiào].' The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 卿逆 [xì]. Gu Yewang states: '隙 (xì) means a perforated aperture.' The Shuowen jiezi states: 'It means a hole at the seam of a wall. It takes 𨸏 as radical and [the graph comprising 日 and 小] as phonetic; [that component] has the same pronunciation as above').