一切經音義 72.13

72.13

Tumbling down (顛墜; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 典年 [diān]. The Erya states: '顛 (diān) means the crown of the head.' Zheng Xuan's Commentary on the Book of Rites states: '顛 is the appearance of sorrowful brooding.' The Shuowen jiezi states that it takes 頁 as radical and 眞 as phonetic. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie 木類 [zhuì]. Guo Pu's Commentary on the Erya states: '墜 (zhuì) is like falling.' The Shuowen jiezi writes it as 𨺎, meaning to come down from a height; it takes 𨸏 as radical and the abbreviated 遂 as phonetic. The form written with 土 is a vulgar variant).