一切經音義 97.18

97.18

拔萃（蒲八反顧野王云拔猶引也說文擢也從手犮聲音盤鉢反下全遂反周易萃者聚也說文從草卒聲也）。

Stand out from one's fellows (拔萃: the first [character is pronounced] pu + ba fan; Gu Yewang says that ba (拔) is like drawing out; the Shuowen jiezi says it means to pull out, composed of 'hand' [手] with ba [犮] phonetic, the sound of 犮 being pan + bo fan. The second is quan + sui fan; the Zhouyi says cui (萃) means to assemble; the Shuowen jiezi says it is composed of 'grass' [艸] with zu [卒] phonetic).