一切經音義 87.96

87.96

煒燁 [brilliant and blazing]: The first character is read with the fanqie wei + gui; the second character is read with the fanqie yan + zhe; these are the orthodox forms in ancient characters. The Mao Commentary on the Shijing says: 'Wei means the appearance of redness.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'The appearance of abundant brightness; composed of fire (火) with wei (韋) as phonetic.' The Guangya says: 'Ye means brightly shining.' The Gujin zhengzi analyzes it as composed of fire (火) with [日/((傘-(企-止))-┬+ㄎ)] as phonetic. The character [日/((傘-(企-止))-┬+ㄎ)] has the same pronunciation as above. In orthodox script it is written thus; the copy of the Lu writes it as 熚, which is erroneous.