一切經音義 29.44

29.44

蚊蜹（上音文說文嚙人飛蟲子也或從䖵作螡或從昬作蟁意言𧊈時而出故從𧊈經從虫從文俗字也下而銳反國語云蜹蛾蜂蠆皆言能害人顧野王云小飛蟲子好入酒中又有小蟲似蜹甚齧人名為蟆子亦有別名文繁不錄方言具載說文形聲字也）。

Mosquitoes and gnats (蚊蜹): The upper character is pronounced *wen* (蚊). The *Shuowen [jiezi]* says: 'A flying insect that bites people; [some write it] with the insect radical 䖵 as 螡, or with "dusk" (昬) as 蟁, meaning that it comes out at dusk (𧊈), hence it takes 𧊈.' The scripture writes it with 虫 and 文, which is a popular variant. The lower character has the fanqie *ér* + *ruì* (蜹). The *Guoyu* says: 'Gnats, moths, bees, and scorpions are all spoken of as capable of harming people.' Gu Yewang says: 'Small flying insect pests that like to get into wine. There is also a small insect resembling a gnat that bites people fiercely, called the midge (蟆子). It has other names as well, but the texts are too numerous to record, and the *Fangyan* records them in detail.' In the *Shuowen [jiezi]*, it is a phono-semantic compound.