一切經音義 69.115

69.115

Salty and saline (鹹鹵: the upper character [鹹] is pronounced qia-xian fan; the Erya says: "鹹 means bitter." Guo's commentary says: "'Bitter' means exceedingly salty." The Shuowen says: "The flavor of the north; it takes 鹵 as semantic and 咸 as phonetic." The lower character [鹵] is pronounced lu-gu fan; the Shuowen says: "鹵 is the saline land of the west; moreover, the west calls it 鹵; it takes the abbreviated 西 as semantic, with 鹵 picturing the appearance of salt").