一切經音義 99.173

99.173

Palace gate-towers (魏闕) (wei pronounced with the fanqie 巍貴 [wēi + guì = wèi]: the Huainanzi says, "His mind dwells at the imperial gate-towers." The Zhouli says that the heavenly gate-towers are called xiangwei (象魏); wei is a designation for something lofty and grand; it is classified under 委 with 鬼 as its phonetic. The Collected [Edition] writes it with the radical 馬 as 騩, pronounced 貴; the Zitong says it means a light black horse, which is not the meaning of 魏闕).