續一切經音義 6.39

6.39

Poured-down rain (澍雨: the first character has the fanqie *zh- / sh-*, the Huainanzi says: "The spring rain irrigates the myriad things; there is no place it does not pour down (shu 澍), and nothing that does not grow"; the Shuowen says: "Derived from water with shu 尌 as phonetic; shu 尌 is pronounced the same"; for the character below, yu 雨 (rain), the Shuowen says: "The horizontal stroke 一 resembles heaven, 冂 resembles clouds covering above, and the vertical line 丨 represents falling; the four dots resemble rain misting and drifting in mid-air; 冂 is pronounced mi 覓, and 丨 has the fanqie *g- / b-*; it is an associative compound").