一切經音義 88.124

88.124

崢嶸 [Towering and precipitous] (The upper character is pronounced with the fanqie 仕耕. The lower character is pronounced with the fanqie 獲萌. Xu Shuzhong's [Xu Shen's] commentary on the Huainanzi says: '崢嶸 describes the lofty and perilous appearance of mountains and valleys.' The Guangya says: '崢嶸 means profound, deep, high, and precipitous.' The Shuowen correctly gives 崝, with the same explanation as above. Both characters take 山 [mountain] as semantic classifier, with 爭 and 榮 as phonetics).