一切經音義 86.127

86.127

Moat of the city-wall 惑壍 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 弘 + 國; examining the text of the Treatise, huo qian 惑壍 is suspected to be cheng qian 城壍 [city moat]; if it does not take the heart radical 心 then it is mistaken, and here it is altered to take the heart radical to make 惑. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 七 + 焰; the wordbooks and the Guangya both say: "Qian is a long trench." Gu Yewang says: "This refers to what is now the moat of a city wall." The Shuowen jiezi states that a qian is also a trench; it takes the earth radical 土 and the phonetic 漸. In the Treatise it is written with 斬 as 塹, which is not this character).