一切經音義 86.119

86.119

Cursing and imprecating 詶詛 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 州 + 又; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 側 + 據; Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: "Regarding oaths and curses in contractual pledges, major affairs are called covenants (盟) and minor affairs are called imprecations (詛)." The Shuowen jiezi says: "Chou means to curse (詛); zu also means to curse (詶)." Both characters chou and zu take the speech radical 言, with 州 and 且 respectively serving as phonetics. In the Treatise they are written with the mouth radical 口 as 呪 and 咀, which are vulgar characters).