一切經音義 3.111

3.111

酸答 (Sour response: The lower character has the fanqie 當納 [dá]. The Yunying says: '荅 means responding to.' The Shuowen jiezi states that it is derived from 艸 [grass] with the sound 合. The ancient script had it derived from 曰 with 合 to make 𣆗, which is not in current use. Because cursive script changed the top grass radical into 𥫗 [bamboo], it was written as 答; cases such as 落, 莫, 薄, and 若 are all of this kind).