一切經音義 37.79

37.79

赫弈: The first character has the fanqie [y]ā + [g]é. The Guangya says: "赫赫 means bright." The commentary on the Classic of Poetry says: "An appearance of splendor and prominence." The Shuowen [jiezi] says: "Very red; composed of two 'red' (赤) characters." The Shuowen [jiezi] states that the character 赤 represents the color of fire in the south, composed of 大 and 火. In current clerical script it is written as 赤, which is a variant form. In the scripture text it is written with the grass radical over 赤 as 䓇, which does not form a proper character. The character 呀 has the fanqie [h]è + [j]iā. The second character has the pronunciation of 亦. 赫赫弈弈 describes a blazing, splendid appearance; composed of 廾 with 亦 phonetic. The pronunciation of 廾 is 拱.