續一切經音義 1.7

1.7

Wan lai 萬籟 (The upper character is the fanqie wu + yuan; properly written as the character 万. The Suanjing states: 'Ten thousand is called 万.' It is now written as 萬, which was originally the name of an insect, a prefecture, and a family surname; it was customarily borrowed for the character 万. The lower character is the fanqie luo + da; it is the name of a musical instrument. The Shuowen states: 'The da lai is a small flute.' Guo Pu's commentary on the Erya states: 'A large flute has twenty-three pipes and is one chi four cun long; a small one has sixteen pipes and is one chi two cun long, also named lai.' The character takes the bamboo radical with the phonetic lai. The text of the preface takes the grass radical, forming 藾, which is the name of an artemisia and not the usage here.).