續一切經音義 8.104

English (machine translation) 8.104

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8.104

Wéimù (curtain and canopy) (the first character has the fanqie wěi + bēi. The Shiming says: "Wéi means surrounding; it refers to enclosing oneself with a partition." The Shuowen jiezi says: "What is at the sides is called wéi; formed with the 'cloth' radical and the phonetic zhuī." The second character has the fanqie mó + gè. Gu Yewang says: "What covers above is called mù." The Shuowen jiezi has the same pronunciation and gloss; it is formed with the "cloth" radical and the phonetic mò).

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