一切經音義 68.202

68.202

Frost and hail (霜雹: the second character is pronounced pang-bo [báo]; the Bohu tong says: 'The yin qi condenses and coalesces into hail.' Zheng's commentary on the Book of Rites says: 'Yang becomes rain; the yin qi constrains it and it congeals into hail.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It is rain water; it is formed with [the semantic classifier] yǔ (rain) and has bāo as its phonetic component.' Anciently written as [百-日+?]).