一切經音義 8.75

8.75

Suppressed and crushed (抑挫: the first character is pronounced 於 + 力 fanqie; Jia Kui's commentary on the Guoyu says: 抑 means to stop; Du's commentary on the Zuo Tradition says: 抑 means to damage/diminish; Ru Chun's commentary on the Shiji says: 抑 means to bend/subdue; the Songs of Chu says: 'Bending one's mind and suppressing one's will', which is this; Shuowen writes it as [卬-ㄗ+(ㄗ@、)], an inverted 印; [卬-ㄗ+(ㄗ@、)] is pronounced 一 + 力 fanqie, while 印 is pronounced 一 + 刃 fanqie; the Stone Classics added the hand classifier to 印 to write 抑, which is a variant character; the second character is pronounced 祖 + 過 fanqie; Jia Kui's commentary on the Guoyu says: breaking a point is called 挫; Shuowen says: 挫 means to break; it takes shou [手] as its classifier and 坐 as its phonetic).