一切經音義 16.161

16.161

諛讇 (yú-chǎn; fanqie: yú + zhū [yú]. The Zhuangzi says: 'To speak without distinguishing right from wrong is called flattery (諛).' Kong [Anguo]'s commentary on the Shangshu says: '諛 also means to fawn (讇).' In the sūtra text it is written as 諭, which is incorrect. The second character has the fanqie: chǐ + rǎn [chǎn]. He [Xiu]'s commentary on the Gongyang zhuan says: '讇 means sycophantic.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It means to flatter. It takes 言 as semantic component and 閻 as phonetic component.' 閻 has the fanqie: yǐ + zhān [yán]. In the sūtra text it is written as 諂; 諂 is an abbreviated form used colloquially.)