續一切經音義 8.119

8.119

Xuánwō (eddy and whirlpool) (the first character has the fanqie cí + xuǎn. The Shuowen jiezi says: "A swirling abyss of water; formed with the 'water' radical and the phonetic xuán; a phono-semantic character." The Vinaya text simply writes xuán, meaning successive rotation, which is not applicable here. The second character has the fanqie wū + hé. The Zilin says: "A place where water swirls back." The Shuowen jiezi says: "Formed with the 'water' radical and the phonetic guò." The Vinaya text writes 渦, pronounced gē, the name of a river, not the meaning of an eddy/whirlpool).