一切經音義 87.15

87.15

刁斗 Soldier's kettle: the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 鳥 + 聊; the second is pronounced with the fanqie 兜 + 偶. Meng Kang's commentary on the Book of Han says: 'It is made of bronze and holds one dou; by day it is used to cook food, and by night it is struck to alert the troops. It is carried along with the army, and kept in the armory at Xingyang; nowadays it has been changed to a bronze gong (zheng).' The Gujin zhengzi states: 'Both characters are pictographs, resembling a dipper with a handle.' The treatise's writing of it as 升 is an error.