一切經音義 60.110

60.110

Sprinkling and wringing (the first character is sǎ in fanqie from shā and jiǎ; the Kaosheng states that it means scattering water like rain; the Shuowen states that sǎ means sprinkling; it takes the beautiful radical with an abbreviated shā as phonetic; the second is liè in fanqie from lián and niè, a vulgar character; the orthodox ancient form is [(敲-高+糸)/皿], taking yāo, [(犀-尸)-牛+十], zhī, and xiě; it is also pronounced lì in fanqie from lì and jì; the meaning is the same as above; or it takes the silk radical to make 綟; the character dictionaries state: two people, one on the left and one on the right, wringing out water; here it is taken in the entering tone).