一切經音義 8.20

8.20

Ravines and valleys (谿谷: the upper character is qi-ji [fanqie]. The Erya says: "Water pouring into a stream." The Shuowen says: "A mountain cleft through which there is no passage." It is also written with the radical 水 as 溪, and with the radical 石 as 磎, as in the name Fanxi (磻磎), found in the Zuan Yun, which does not have this meaning. The lower character is gong-gu [fanqie]. The Shuowen says: "A spring emerging and flowing freely makes a valley. It takes its semantic classifier from 水 'water', half visible coming forth from a 口 'mouth'; it is an ideogrammatic compound").