一切經音義 8.106

8.106

Fail [one's trust] [辜負] (The first character has the fanqie gu + ku [古枯反]. The Rites of Zhou says: "The duty of execution and quartering: whenever one slays a relative of the king, one quarters [辜] him." Zheng [Xuan] says: "Gu [辜] has the sense of dried up [枯]." The Shuowen jiezi says: "Gu means crime; derived from xin [辛] with gu [古] phonetic." In the sūtra it is written with the hand radical as 𢪿, which is erroneous. The second character has the fanqie fu + wu [浮武反]. Gu Yewang says: "Turning one's back on kindness and forgetting virtue is called fu [負]." The Shuowen jiezi says: "Fu means to rely on; the top derives from 'person' [人] and the bottom from 'cowrie' [貝]; a person guarding precious cowries has something to rely upon." Another explanation says: receiving a loan without repaying it, hence a person above cowries represents debt; there is also a popular character written with the person radical as 偩).