一切經音義 97.143

97.143

Torchlight 𤓡火 (fanqie: 漿削 [jiáo]). Lü Buwei says: 'A small torch (爝) shines light like a beacon fire (爟火).' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'That is, a torch made of bundles of reed.' It takes 火 ('fire') as semantic and [(爵-(即-ㄗ+寸)+(鬯-凵+囗))*又] as phonetic. The character [(爵-(即-ㄗ+寸)+(鬯-凵+囗))*又] correctly takes 鬯 and 又. The edition under collation writes it as 爵, which is a vulgar character. 爟 has the fanqie 孤玩.