一切經音義 78.186

78.186

Agate (碼碯; the first character has the fanqie 麻把 [m- + -ǎ]; the second has the fanqie 那老 [n- + -ǎo]; the Kaosheng says: "Agate resembles jade with black veins; it is also called mottled jade"; the character books say: "Agate is a stone second to jade"; the Wenzi dian shuo says: "Both characters take 'stone' (石) as semantic, with 馬 and [甾-十+乂] as phonetic, pronounced the same as above"; it is also written with 'jade' (玉) as 瑪瑙).