一切經音義 8.81

8.81

Or lotus root (或藕: [the second character is] pronounced 五 + 苟 fanqie; Kaosheng says: lotus root; Erya says: of the lotus, he, and fuqu, its root is called 藕; Yupian writes it as 𦸲; the Materia Medica calls it shuizhi dan or sweet lotus, which is edible; Shuowen writes it with shui [水] as 蕅, meaning fuqu root; it takes cao [草] and shui [水] as its classifiers and 果 as its phonetic).