一切經音義 55.36

55.36

Weiye (brilliant and blazing) (the first character has the fanqie: 韋 + 鬼 [wěi]; the *Gujin zhengzi* states: 'Abundance of red colour.' The Mao Commentary to the *Shijing* also says: 'Appearance of redness.' The second character has the fanqie: 炎 + 劫 [yè]; the *Guangya* states: 'Ye also means bright light.' Guo's commentary to the *Fangyan* also says it means abundant. The *Shuowen* states: 'Weiye means the flash of lightning.' Both characters take 火 as semantic classifier, with 韋 and [日/((傘-(企-止))-┬+ㄎ)] respectively as phonetics. [日/((傘-(企-止))-┬+ㄎ)] has the same pronunciation as above. The sūtra writes them with 日 as 暐曄, which are popular variants).