一切經音義 75.68

75.68

依洫 ("relying on drainage ditches": the sūtra text writing the first character 依 as plain 衣 is incorrect; according to the meaning it should have the person radical as 依. The second character is fanqie 吁域 [xù]. The Rites of Zhou says: 'A 洫 is that by which water is conducted into a river.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'Ten li makes a di; a trench eight chi wide and eight chi deep is called a 洫. Derived from 水 with 血 as phonetic.' A 洫 is also a ditch).