一切經音義 86.133

86.133

Branding and cutting off the nose 黥劓 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 競 + 迎; the Rites of Zhou says: "Qing is the punishment of tattooing with ink, like marking the face today." The Records of the Grand Historian says: "He was tattooed and later became king"; tattooing was indeed a bodily punishment applied to the face. The Shuowen jiezi states that it takes the black radical 黑 and the phonetic 京; it is also written with the knife radical 刀 as [劁-隹+里]. In the Treatise it is written with 京 as 剠, which is a vulgar character. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 疑 + 器; the Kaosheng says: "Yi means cutting off the nose." Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: "Amputating the nose." Kong [Anguo's] commentary on the Book of Documents says: "Also means cutting off the nose." The Shuowen jiezi gives it as 劓, meaning to amputate the nose. The Gujin zhengzi states that it takes the knife radical 刀 and 劓; 刖 is pronounced 兀).