一切經音義 86.140

86.140

閹人（上奄炎反鄭注周禮云閹人即今黃門人也說文云宮中閉門閽守閹竪也從門奄聲閽音昏）。

Eunuch 閹人 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 奄 + 炎; Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: "A yanren is what is now called a palace gatekeeper or eunuch (huangmen)." The Shuowen jiezi says: "One who closes palace gates, a gatekeeper eunuch servant"; it takes the gate radical 門 and the phonetic 奄; 閽 is pronounced 昏).