一切經音義 75.66

75.66

髑髏 ("skull": the first character is fanqie 同祿 [dú]; the second is fanqie 勒侯 [lóu]. The Picang says: 'The bone of the head.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'The crown bone.' Both are phono-semantic characters with the bone radical. The sūtra text writing them with the head radical 頁 as 䫳䫫 is vulgar usage and also acceptable, though not the standard form).