一切經音義 93.187

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汲冢 [Jizhong]: The first character is pronounced jí; it is a place name. In Ji Commandery was the ancient tomb of King Anxi [of Wei]. During the Jin period someone grave-robbed this tomb and obtained several bundles of bamboo slips, all of which were ancient classical works; the contemporaries referred to them as the Jizhong records. The Shuowen jiezi says that the character zhǒng (冢) is composed of bāo (包) and chù (豖); chù is read with the fanqie chou + lu (chù), and chù is also the phonetic element.