一切經音義 98.48

98.48

Tattooing and cutting off the nose: 黥 [qing] (upper character: 極 + 迎 fanqie. The Zhouli says: "'Qing' refers to the punishment of tattooing with ink." The Kaosheng says: "Like the facial stamping of today." The Shuowen jiezi says: "The ink punishment inflicted on the face. Analyzed: from radical 黑 'black', with 京 phonetic." In the Kaosheng it is also written as [劁-隹+里]. The collection has it with radical 刀 'knife' as 剠, pronounced 亮, 亮 meaning 'to plunder', which does not have the meaning of punishment); 劓 [yi] (lower character: 魚 + 記 fanqie. Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Zhouli says: "'Yi' refers to cutting off the nose." The Shuowen jiezi says: "To slit the nose." It is also written with radical 臬 as 㓷; 臬 is pronounced 齧).