一切經音義 95.19

95.19

Wanshan 蜿蟺 (The upper character is pronounced fanqie 冤阮; the lower is 蟬戰. The Shanglin fu says: "Elephants and wanshan rove through the western purity." Gu Yewang notes: "Wanshan represents the beautiful appearance of coiling, bending, and turning." The Wenzi dian说 states: "It has the 'insect' radical and the phonetic component wan 宛; it is also written as [死/虫]." The Shuowen says: "Shan 蟺 is [死/虫]蟺; it has the 'insect' radical and the phonetic component dan 亶." Collected editions writing it as yan 蜒 are incorrect. Dan 亶 is pronounced fanqie 丹嬾).