一切經音義 80.154

80.154

Labels and placards (籤牓: the first character has the fanqie 妾鹽 [qiān]; the Shuowen jiezi says: 'Qiān means to examine persons.' The Kaosheng says: 'Qiān is a small bamboo slip. In ancient times, inscribing a slip to report affairs was called qiān.' The Gujin zhengzi gives it with 'bamboo' [竹] as radical and xiān [韱] as phonetic; xiān has the pronunciation xiān [xiān]. The second character has the fanqie 博莾反 [bǎng]. On examination, 'labels and placards' (qiānbǎng) refers to writing the titles of the respective scriptures and books, distinguishing the systematic arrangements, and marking out the divisions and wrappers).