一切經音義 95.144

95.144

錙銖 ('Trifling amount'; the first character has the fanqie 滓 + 師 [zī], the second has the fanqie 樹 + 朱 [zhū]. Zheng's commentary on the Liji says: 'Eight liang make a zi.' Xu's commentary on the Huainanzi says: 'Twelve millet grains weigh one fen; twelve fen make one zhu.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'A zi is six zhu; a zhu is a weight-division equal to the weight of ten broomcorn millet grains.' Both characters are composed with "metal" (金) as semantic element, with 甾 and 朱 as phonetics. 甾 has the same sound as above.)