一切經音義 8.89

8.89

Overlapping layers (重疊: [the first character is] pronounced 長 + 龍 fanqie; the second character is pronounced 亭 + 叶 fanqie; Cang Jie says: 疊 means repeated/double; Guangya says: thick; Song Zhong's commentary on the Taixuanjing says: 疊 means accumulated; Gu Yewang says: 疊 means clear; Shuowen says: ancient judicial officials decided cases according to the principle that 'deliberating thrice achieves propriety, and only then is punishment carried out'; thus it is composed of three yue [曰] forming 晶 and takes 宜 to form 疊; Wang Mang changed the three yue [曰] as being overly flourishing into three tian [田] to write 疊; the sūtra writing it as 疊 is a variant form).