一切經音義 80.98

80.98

掩雲 ("Covering clouds"): Pronounced with the fanqie 淹 + 撿 (yǎn). The Mao Commentary on the Classic of Poetry states: 'Yān describes the appearance of dark overcast clouds.' The Guangya states: 'It means heavily overcast.' The Shuowen jiezi states that it takes the radical 水 (water) with 弇 as the phonetic. The Guangcang writes it with the radical 雨 (rain) as [雨/(電-雨+大)]. The Yupian writes it with the radical 廾 as 弇. Their sounds and meanings are both identical. The catalogue text writes it with 水 as 淹, which is vulgar usage and identical.