一切經音義 92.21

92.21

Tudie 圖牒 (The first character has the fanqie 杜謨. The Guangya states: "Tu is like to calculate"; calculate is pronounced duó. The Shuowen jiezi states: "Die is like a tablet." It takes the wood-splinter radical with yè as phonetic; yè is pronounced yè. Note: Registers and genealogical charts were made either of bamboo or wooden tablets; their meaning dictates writing with the wood-splinter radical as 牃. Transmitted texts writing it with the speech radical as 諜 are incorrect; dié with the speech radical means chattering or acting as a spy, which is not the original meaning and is rejected here.)