一切經音義 72.86

72.86

Chewing and masticating (咀嚼: the first character [咀] is fanqie 才與 [jǔ]. The Shanglin fu says: "Chewing water caltrops and lotus roots." The Cangjiepian says: "咀 is like chewing." The Shuowen says: "咀 means savouring in the mouth." It is formed with the mouth radical [口] and 且 as phonetic, and is sometimes written as 齟. The second character [嚼] is fanqie 牆略 [jué], which was already glossed above in Fascicle 5).