續一切經音義 7.15

7.15

持鍬 (The lower character is 七 + 消 [qiāo]; a popular character; also written as 鍫; properly written as 鐰; in ancient script written as [(序-予+非)*斗]; the Erya says: "[(序-予+非)*斗] is called a spade (jié)"; Guo's commentary says: "Characters for spade (qiāo) and shovel (chā)"; the Fangyan says: "Between Zhao and Wei, a shovel (chā) is called a qiāo; east of the Yangtze it is called a biē; in Ba and Shu, a qiāo is called a chā; these are all dialectal variations"; 鐅 is pronounced 片 + 蔑 [piē]; 鍤 is pronounced chā).