一切經音義 75.60

75.60

口中上腭 ("the upper palate in the mouth": fanqie 我各 [è]. The Kaosheng says: 'The gums and palate.' It is missing in the Shuowen jiezi. In character dictionaries it is sometimes written with the tooth radical as 齶. The Jixun says: 'The gums and palate are the upper part inside the mouth.' The correct form has the flesh radical with 㖾 as phonetic; 㖾 has the same pronunciation as above, and is composed of 叩 above and 屰 below; 屰 is pronounced 逆 [nì]. Today, popular usage writes it with 子 as 咢. The sūtra text writes it as 嚯; 嚯 is fanqie 呼郭 [huò], which contradicts the sūtra's meaning; it is now corrected and rejected).