一切經音義 92.31

92.31

盱衡 (The first character has the fanqie phonetic spelling 酗 [xù] + 于 [yú], [xū]. Sima Biao's commentary says: "'Xū' is like the appearance of looking without understanding." The Cang Jie pian says: "'Xū' means opening the eyes wide." The Shuowen says: "'Xū' means suffering from worry and illness. It takes 目 [eye] as its radical and 于 as its phonetic component." In the text of the biography it is written with 日 [sun] as 𰕱, which is a scribal error. The second character is the correct form of the character 衡 [héng]. The Kaosheng states: "It is composed of 行 [go], 角 [horn], and 大 [great], meaning that when an ox butts people, a piece of wood is placed horizontally across its horns. 'Héng' is like 'horizontal'. It is an associative compound character." The Wenzidian shuo states: "It is composed of 行 with 角 as phonetic; it is the correct character for 衡").