一切經音義 33.14

33.14

聾聵 (deaf and dull of hearing; the first character is 祿東反; the Zuo zhuan states, 'When the ear does not hear the harmony of the five tones, that is 聾 (deafness)'; the Cang Jie Pian states that 聾 means the ears cannot hear; the Shuowen jiezi also states that it means not hearing; it takes the 'ear' (耳) radical with 龍 as phonetic; the second character is 頑恠反; the Guoyu states, 'The deaf and the dull of hearing cannot be made to listen'; Jia [Kui's] commentary states that being born deaf is called 聵; the Wenzidian shuo states that it takes the 'ear' (耳) radical with 貴 as phonetic).