續一切經音義 3.110

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Pitfall trap (穽陷: the first character has the fanqie 疾 + 政. In ancient script it is written 阱, meaning a pit. The Shangshu says: "Block [敜] your pitfall traps." Character dictionaries say: "Trapping animals is called jing." The second character has the fanqie 戶 + 蘸. The Qieyun says: "To enter; to collapse and sink." The Kaosheng says: "To fall." The Shuowen jiezi writes it as 臽, a small pit. Zhan (蘸) has the fanqie 㽵 + 陷. The character 臽 consists of ⺈ above 臼; ⺈ is pronounced like 人; words such as 諂 and 燄 all follow this. Some write it with 爪 as 舀, pronounced with the fanqie 羊 + 小; characters like 韜 and 蹈 derive from this. Nie (敜) is pronounced nie [躡]).