一切經音義 64.127

64.127

䰅髮 (Beard and hair: The first character [䰅], pronounced *xiang* + *yu* [xū]. The *Kaosheng* states: '䰅 means beard.' The *Shuowen* has the standard graph as 須, facial hair; it is composed of 頁, which means head, and 彡, which depicts hairs. In the current sūtra text, it is written with the classifier 髟 as 䰅, which is also permissible and is the commonly used vulgar character. The second character [髮], pronounced *fan* + *mo* [fà]. The *Shuowen* states: 'The hair on top of the head; composed of 髟 with 犮 as phonetic.' It is also written with 首 as 髮, or written as 㛲, both being ancient graphs. 髟 is pronounced *bi* + *yao* [biāo]. 犮 is pronounced *pu* + *wei* [bá]; the character 犮 is composed of 犬 [dog] with [必-心] added to it; [必-心] is pronounced *pian* + *mie* [piē]).