一切經音義 55.61

55.61

Xihua (fine and slippery) (the first character has the fanqie: 棲 + 祭 [xì]; it is properly written with 囟 as 𥿳; the sūtra text writes it with 田 as 細, which is a popular variant; 囟 has the sound xìn. The second character has the fanqie: 環 + 八 [huá]; the *Guangya* states: 'Hua means fine.' The *Shuowen* states: 'It means smooth and sharp; it takes 水 as semantic classifier and 骨 as phonetic').