續一切經音義 10.43

10.43

Vast Heaven (昊天: the first character is [pronounced with the fanqie] hu + lao; the Erya says: "Summer is Vast Heaven [昊天]"; Guo's commentary says: "Meaning that the pneuma is bright and brilliant"; the Shuowen writes it as 昦, formed from sun [日] with gao as phonetic; gao is pronounced hao; as for the second character, heaven [天], the Shiming says: "Spoken with tongue and belly, tian [heaven] means 'manifest' [xian]; it is high and manifest above; furthermore, tian means 'level and wide' [tan]; being level, wide, lofty, and distant, the character is formed from one [一] and great [大]"; gan is pronounced with the fanqie yue + dan).