一切經音義 86.58

86.58

Historical records (史𠕋: [the second character is] *chu-ge* [ch- + -è = chè] in fanqie; Cai Yong’s Duduan says: “𠕋 means bamboo slips.” Zheng’s commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: “The bamboo records (簡𠕋) refer to writing down the king’s decrees to safeguard the state.” The character 𠕋 is pictographic, showing three long and two short slips bound together twice in the middle. In the treatise it is written as 策, which is a vulgar character).