一切經音義 82.177

82.177

蓊鬱 ('luxuriantly dense'; the first character has the fanqie weng + kong [wěng]. Sima Xiangru says: 'Wengyu is the appearance of luxuriant vegetation.' It takes 艸 as radical and 翁 as phonetic. The second character has the fanqie yun + wu [yù]. The Shuowen says: 'Vegetation growing in clumps; it takes 林 as radical.' The ancient script took 臼, [午/止], 冂, and 鬯 [pronounced chi + liang, chàng], with 彡. Nowadays it is often written with 艮 and 寸, which is incorrect).