一切經音義 33.8

33.8

旭日 (rising sun; the first character is 吁玉反; the Mao Commentary on the Classic of Poetry states that 旭 refers to the moment when the sun first emerges at dawn; the Shuowen jiezi states that 旭 is the appearance of the sun about to rise; it takes the 'sun' (日) radical with 九 as phonetic).