一切經音義 91.51

91.51

Washing and cleansing (盥洒: the upper character is a departing-tone character with the fanqie sound of *g[uan]-w[an]* [官注椀反]; the *Kaosheng* states that 盥 means washing hands; it is composed of 臼 [pronounced *ju* (菊)], 水 [water], and 皿 [vessel], being an ideogrammic compound character; the lower character has the fanqie sound of *x[ing]-l[i]* [星禮反], also written as 洗, both categorized under radical 水 and being phono-semantic compound characters).