一切經音義 96.153

96.153

Soaring and descending (頡頏) (The upper character has the fanqie 賢結 [xié]; the lower character has the fanqie 鶴郎 [háng]. The Kaosheng says: "Xiehang 頡頏 means suddenly going high and suddenly going low." The Shuowen says: "Xie 頡 means a straight neck; it takes 頁 'head' as semantic and 吉 as phonetic." The Gujin zhengzi says: "Hang 頏 means the throat; it takes 頁 'head' as semantic and 亢 as phonetic").