一切經音義 96.158

96.158

耄耋（上毛報反下田結反杜注春秋云耄𢿢也鄭注禮記云惛忘也尒疋云耋老也孫炎云老人面色如鐵者也說文作𦽡年九十也從老蒿省聲耋年八十也從老省聲亦作[老/鬼]）。

Octogenarians and nonagenarians (耄耋) (The upper character has the fanqie 毛報 [mào]; the lower character has the fanqie 田結 [dié]. Du's commentary on the Chunqiu says: "Mao 耄 means aged and frail." Zheng's commentary on the Liji says: "Confused and forgetful." The Erya says: "Die 耋 means old." Sun Yan says: "An elderly person whose facial complexion is like iron." The Shuowen writes it as 𦽡, meaning ninety years old, taking 老 'old' as semantic and an abbreviated 蒿 as phonetic; die 耋 means eighty years old, taking an abbreviated 老 as semantic and 至 as phonetic; it is also written as [老/鬼]).