一切經音義 17.98

17.98

Splendid and elegant (袨麗; the first character is [pronounced with the] fanqie xuán + [ju]àn. Xu Shuzhong's commentary to the Huainanzi says: “Xuàn means black garments.” The Kaosheng says: “Xuàn means fine.” The Gujin zhengzi says: “The ritual officer's pure black garment is gòuxuàn; gòu means pure. It takes yī ‘clothing’ as semantic classifier and xuán as phonetic”).