一切經音義 35.33

35.33

㲲縷（上音牒西國草花𧄜也如此國葪花蕠撚為縷作布從毛疊聲或從糸作[糸*葉]本無此字譯經者權制之故無定體下力宇反即織者之縷也說文縷綫也從糸婁聲撚音年典反）。

㲲縷 [Cotton thread] (The pronunciation of the upper character is 牒 [dié]. It is the flower-down of a Western grass, like the carded thistle-down of this country twisted into thread to make cloth; formed from 毛 (hair) with 疊 as phonetic, or written with the silk radical as 𥿛. Originally there was no such character; the translators of the sūtras invented it as an expedient, so it has no fixed form. The fanqie of the lower character is 力 + 宇 [lǚ], namely the thread used by weavers. The Shuowen says: "縷 means thread; formed from 糸 (silk) with 婁 as phonetic." The fanqie of 撚 is 年 + 典 [niǎn]).