一切經音義 34.375

34.375

痿瘁（上委為反鄭注禮記痿病也說文從疒委聲下慈醉反毛詩傳曰瘁病也說文從疒卒聲疒音女厄反也）。

Withered and exhausted (痿瘁, the upper character is pronounced with the fanqie 委 + 為 [wěi]; Zheng's commentary to the Liji says that 痿 means paralysis or wasting illness; the Shuowen states it derives from radical 疒 [illness] with 委 as phonetic; the lower character is pronounced with the fanqie 慈 + 醉 [cuì]; the Mao commentary to the Shijing says that 瘁 means exhausted by illness; the Shuowen states it derives from radical 疒 with 卒 as phonetic; 疒 is pronounced with the fanqie 女 + 厄 [nè]).