一切經音義 33.5

33.5

殞墜 (perishing and falling down; the first character is 筠菌反; the second character is 椎類反; the Shenglei states that 殞 means to perish; 隕 means to fall; Kong [Anguo's] commentary on the Classic of Documents states, 'As if falling into a deep spring'; the Shuowen jiezi states that it takes the 'death' (歺) radical with 員 as phonetic; or written with the 'mound' (𨸏) radical as 隕, not using 歺 which has the sound of can (ruin); the Wenzidian shuo states that 墜 means falling from on high; it takes the 'mound' (𨸏) radical with 遂 abbreviated as phonetic; [隊-(阿-可)] is pronounced 遂; also written as 隊).