一切經音義 72.12

72.12

Clamorous slander (囂謗; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 虛嬌 [xiāo]. Gu Yewang states: '囂 (xiāo) is like clamour and noise.' Zheng Xuan's Commentary on the Classic of Poetry states: '囂 is the appearance of a great crowd.' The Shuowen jiezi states: 'It is the breath coming out above the head. It takes 頁 as radical and 㗊 as phonetic; 㗊 is pronounced 戢 [jí].' The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 博傍 [bàng]. The Kaosheng states: '謗 (bàng) means reviling someone with words; it means to curse; it means badness.' The Shuowen jiezi states: '謗 means to revile. It takes "speech" [言] as radical and 旁 as phonetic').