一切經音義 96.155

96.155

Crawling on hands and knees (匍匐) (The upper character has the fanqie 步摸 [pú]; the lower character has the fanqie 朋北 [fú]. Gu Yewang says: "To crawl on the ground prostrating with one's hands." The Shuowen says: "Pu 匍 means moving on hands; fu 匐 means prostrating. Both characters take 勹 as semantic, with 甫 and 畐 as phonetics." 勹 is pronounced 包 [bāo]; 畐 has the fanqie 丕逼 [bī]).