一切經音義 98.12

98.12

Dark blue eyelashes (gànjié: the first is fanqie 甘 + 暗 [gān + àn]. The Shuowen jiezi states: "A deep blue with reddish tints; it takes the radical 糸 with 甘 as its phonetic component." The second is fanqie 僣 + 葉 [jiàn + yè]. The Shuowen jiezi states: "The hairs beside the eyes." It is also written with the radical 夾 as 䀹. The Shiming writes it as [麩-夫+毛]).