一切經音義 72.41

72.41

Walls and moats (牆壍; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 匠羊 [qiáng]. Gu Yewang states: '牆 (qiáng) means a partition wall.' The Zuozhuan states: 'That people have walls is to screen off wickedness.' The Shuowen jiezi states: '牆 means a wall screen. It takes 嗇 as radical and 爿 as phonetic; 嗇 is pronounced with the fanqie 使力 [shì], and 爿 is pronounced 牆 [qiáng].' The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 千艷 [qiàn]. The Guangya states: '壍 (qiàn) means a pit.' Gu Yewang states: 'Nowadays city moats are called 塹.' The Gujin zhengzi states that it takes 'earth' [土] as radical and 斬 as phonetic).