一切經音義 33.24

33.24

痿躄 (paralysed and crippled; the first character is 委歸反; Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Book of Rites states that 痿 means a yellowing disease; the Cang Jie Pian states that 痿 means unable to walk; the Shuowen jiezi states that it means paralysis; it takes the 'sickness' (疒) radical with 委 as phonetic; or written with 歺 as [(餐-食)-又+委]; 歺 is pronounced can; the second character is 并亦反; Gu Yewang states that 躄 means one leg is withered and unable to walk; the Shuowen jiezi states that 躄 means a person cannot walk; it takes the 'foot' (足) radical with 辟 as phonetic; the Kaosheng notes that it is also interchangeably written with 止 as 𣦢).