一切經音義 46.8

46.8

Infant chuckles [嬰咳] (fanqie: 於盈 [yīng]; 嬰 is like 嫛婗. The Cang Jie pian says: "A girl is called 嬰, a boy is called 兒." The Shiming says: "Before the chest is called 嬰; one brings them before the chest to suckle and nurture them, hence they are called infants [嬰兒]." 咳 is the ancient character for 孩, fanqie: 胡來 [hái]; the Shuowen says: "咳 means an infant laughing; 咳 means very young." The Liji says: "When the heir is three months old, the father takes the son's hand, chuckles [咳], and names him"—this is it. In the treatise text it is written with the woman radical as 姟; the Zilin gives fanqie: 古才 [gāi]: "姟 is a vast number"; 姟 is not used in this sense. 嫛 has the sound 烏奚 fanqie [yī]; 婗 is 五奚 fanqie [ní]).