一切經音義 68.108

68.108

Harsh and cruel (嚴酷; [the second character is] 空 + 穀. The *Fangyan* states: "酷 means extreme; also ripe. North of the Yellow River, between Zhao and Wei, the ripening of grain is called 酷," which is not the meaning here. Looking into the character for harsh and cruel, it is written as this [嚳-爻+同]. Gu Yewang states: "Empty and deficient." The *Shuowen jiezi* states: "[嚳-爻+同] means urgent; an extreme form of suffering. Composed of 告 and 学 with the phonetic abbreviated").