一切經音義 14.133

14.133

Overbear and slight (淩懱: the upper character [overbear (淩)] is a borrowed character with the water radical (氵/水), which is the name of a river; correctly it should be written with the strength radical (力) as 陵. The lower character [slight / despise (懱)] is 眠 [mian] + 結 [jie] [miè]. The Kaosheng says: 'To treat lightly.' Composed of the heart radical (忄/心) with 蔑 as phonetic. The sūtra text simply writing it as 蔑 is incorrect. The Shuowen jiezi also states that the character 蔑 is composed of 戍 with 𦭝 as phonetic, 𦭝 being pronounced 眠 [mian] + 結 [jie] [miè], the same as above).