一切經音義 86.5

86.5

玟瑰 (The upper [character] is pronounced mei [méi]. The lower [character] is gong + hui [guī]. The Cang Jie pian says: "It is the huoji pearl." Mao's commentary to the Classic of Poetry says: "The rose gem (meigui) is the finest and most beautiful of stones, second to jade and broader than pearls." These are phono-semantic characters, both deriving from 玉 [jade]. In the treatise it is written as 㻁, which is incorrect.)