一切經音義 5.46

5.46

Skull (髑髏): The first character is pronounced like 獨. The second character is pronounced like 婁. The Shuowen says: '髑髏 is the parietal bone.' The Picang says: 'The skull bone.' A character dictionary says: 'The brain cover.' It is also called 髑髏, or named 頭顱, or named 𲊮 (read with the fanqie 徒 + 各; 顱 is pronounced like 盧)—all share one meaning; it is merely that the sounds of Chu and Xia differ, resulting in light and heavy phonetic shifts and corruptions.