一切經音義 76.185

76.185

Mild and agreeable (溫適; the first character is fanqie 穩 + 魂. Zheng's annotation to the Mao Commentary on the Classic of Poetry says: '溫 means an agreeable facial expression.' Zheng's commentary to the Erya says: '溫 means harmonious and soft.' The Classic of Rites says: 'In winter keep warm (溫), in summer cool.' The Kaosheng says: 'Warm.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'It takes 水 as semantic classifier and 昷 as phonetic.' 昷 has the same pronunciation as above. The scripture writes it with 火 as 熅; because it has two readings and does not fit the intended sense of the scripture, it is not adopted).