一切經音義 79.37

79.37

劇喪, severe illness and bereavement (the first [character is pronounced with the fanqie] 擎 + 逆; the Fangyan states: "Whenever an illness remits slightly and then worsens, it is called ju (劇)"; Gu Yewang states: "Ju (劇) means severe"; the Cang Jie pian states: "Graveness of illness"; the Gujin zhengzi states it has the knife radical and ju (豦) phonetic).