一切經音義 66.29

66.29

Smoke and flame (煙燄; the upper character is yan + xian [fanqie]; in character dictionaries it correctly takes the radical 垔 as 煙; in the treatise text it takes 因 as 烟, which is a vulgar variant. The Cangjie pian says: "Yan means dense vapor." The Guangya says: "It means odor." The Guoyu says: "The burning smoke reached above." The Shuowen says: "The vapor of fire; with the fire radical and the phonetic 垔." The pronunciation of 熅 is wen + yun [fanqie]; 垔 is yi + ren [fanqie]. The lower character is yan + qian [fanqie]; checking character dictionaries, it correctly takes the radical 炎 as 燄; in the treatise text it is written as 焰, which is a vulgar variant. Kong's commentary on the Shangshu says: "Like a burning flame when it is still faint, where it reaches." Dictionaries say: "Yan means fire flame." The Shuowen says: "Fire moving in a faint flame; with the radical 炎 and the phonetic 臽." The pronunciation of 臽 is xian [𨺂]).