一切經音義 46.8

46.8

嬰咳（於盈反嬰猶嫛婗也蒼頡篇云女曰嬰男曰兒釋名云𦙄前曰嬰投之嬰前以乳養之故曰嬰兒咳古文孩同胡來反說文咳小兒笑也咳稚小也禮記世子生三月父執子之手咳而名之是也論文有從女作姟字林古才反姟大數也姟非此用嫛音烏奚反婗五奚反）。

Infant chuckles [嬰咳] (fanqie: 於盈 [yīng]; 嬰 is like 嫛婗. The Cang Jie pian says: "A girl is called 嬰, a boy is called 兒." The Shiming says: "Before the chest is called 嬰; one brings them before the chest to suckle and nurture them, hence they are called infants [嬰兒]." 咳 is the ancient character for 孩, fanqie: 胡來 [hái]; the Shuowen says: "咳 means an infant laughing; 咳 means very young." The Liji says: "When the heir is three months old, the father takes the son's hand, chuckles [咳], and names him"—this is it. In the treatise text it is written with the woman radical as 姟; the Zilin gives fanqie: 古才 [gāi]: "姟 is a vast number"; 姟 is not used in this sense. 嫛 has the sound 烏奚 fanqie [yī]; 婗 is 五奚 fanqie [ní]).