一切經音義 80.123

80.123

鍵鑰 ("Lock and key"): The first character is pronounced with the fanqie 䖍 + 偃 (jiàn). The Rites of Zhou states: 'The Gate Warden oversees the keys and bolts to open and close them.' Zheng's commentary states: 'Jiàn is like a bolt.' The Fangyan states: 'From the Pass eastward it is called a jiàn; from the Pass westward it is called a yào.' The Shuowen jiezi states that it takes the radical 金 (metal) with 建 as the phonetic. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 羊 + 酌 (yào). The Yupian writes it with the radical 金 as 鑰, which is precisely a lock bolt. The character books also write it with the radical 門 as 𨷲, which is likewise like a lock bolt. The Shuowen jiezi states: '𨷲 is the bolt inserted below the door bar; it takes the radical 門 with 龠 as the phonetic, with the same meaning as 鑰.' The catalogue text writes 鑰; that this is not a bolt is incorrect. The pronunciation of 龠 is identical to the above.