一切經音義 33.19

33.19

斑駁 (mottled and spotted; the first character is 八蠻反; the second character is 邦邈反; the Book of Han states that an intermixture of white and black is called 駁; the Shuowen jiezi states that 駁 means an impure colour; it takes the 'horse' (馬) radical with 爻 as phonetic; 爻 is pronounced 効交反; the sutra writing it with 交 as 駮 is a vulgar character).