一切經音義 95.5

95.5

taozhu 陶鑄 (The first character has the fanqie dao + lao [t-]. Gu Yewang says: "Tao means making pottery vessels." Mencius says: "Shun himself ploughed, sowed, made pottery, and fished," which is this. The Guangya says: "Tao means to transform." The Han Poetry Commentary says: "To change." The Shuowen writes it as 匋, saying: "Earthenware vessels; it takes the jar radical and has an abbreviated bao as phonetic." It also says: "Taking the corpse radical, written as 陶, it is a place name, and also the title of Emperor Yao; nowadays it has long been used interchangeably." The Zuozhuan says: "Casting tripods depicting the myriad creatures; it refers to melting copper to make vessels." The Kaosheng says: "To melt and cast." The Shuowen says: "To smelt metal; it takes the metal radical and has shou as phonetic." Rong has the sound rong [r-]).