一切經音義 86.169

86.169

Gaohuang [incurable illness] (膏肓; the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 告刀, and the second has the fanqie sound 慌光. Du [Yu]'s commentary to the Zuozhuan says: "A disease located below the heart is called gao; located above the diaphragm it is called huang." The Shuowen says: "The two characters 膏 and 肓 both take the radical 肉, with 高 and 亾 both as phonetic." The character 膈 is sounded 隔).