續一切經音義 8.175

8.175

Beak tip (觜端: the first character is [pronounced with the] fanqie [initial and final of] 即 and 委; written in the Picang as 𭪿; the Shuowen agrees, glossing it as a bird's beak; the Vinaya text writes it with the 'mouth' radical as 嘴, but character dictionaries do not have this character. The second character is [pronounced with the] fanqie [initial and final of] 多 and 官; the Qieyun says it means thread-end, or upright; the Kaosheng says straight; the Shuowen says beginning; it takes the 'stand' radical and the phonetic 'zhuān'; 'zhuān' has the same sound as above, said to depict an object beginning to sprout without yet raising its head, having the same sense as the character 豈, not derived from 'mountain').