一切經音義 96.158

96.158

Octogenarians and nonagenarians (耄耋) (The upper character has the fanqie 毛報 [mào]; the lower character has the fanqie 田結 [dié]. Du's commentary on the Chunqiu says: "Mao 耄 means aged and frail." Zheng's commentary on the Liji says: "Confused and forgetful." The Erya says: "Die 耋 means old." Sun Yan says: "An elderly person whose facial complexion is like iron." The Shuowen writes it as 𦽡, meaning ninety years old, taking 老 'old' as semantic and an abbreviated 蒿 as phonetic; die 耋 means eighty years old, taking an abbreviated 老 as semantic and 至 as phonetic; it is also written as [老/鬼]).