續一切經音義 2.45

2.45

池塹 (The first character is pronounced with the fanqie *ch-*, [chi], from 直 and 离. The *Guangya* states: 'Accumulated water is called a pond (池).' The second character is pronounced with the fanqie *q-*, [qian], from 僉 and 焰. Gu Yewang states: 'The moat of a city wall is a 塹; that is, the moat ditch outside the walls today.' The character books say: 'It is a city moat.' The *Shuowen* states: 'It means a pit; it takes 土 [earth] as semantic and 斬 as phonetic.' It is also written with 漸 as 壍, which is the same.)