一切經音義 31.446

31.446

妖蠥（上於嬌反下彥列反考聲云妖蠥鬼恠也孔注尚書云蠥災也說文衣服歌謠草木之恠謂之妖禽獸蟲蝗之恠謂之蠥也或作妖蠥妖從女夭聲蠥從虫嶭聲嶭俗作𦵮也）。

妖蠥 (upper: *ʔo* + *kew* [yāo], lower: *ngjen* + *let* [niè]: The *Kaosheng* says: '妖蠥 means ghostly anomalies.' Kong [Anguo]'s commentary on the *Book of Documents* says: '蠥 means disaster.' The *Shuowen jiezi* says: 'Anomalies in clothing, ballads, grasses, and trees are called 妖; anomalies in birds, beasts, insects, and locusts are called 蠥.' It is also written as 妖孽; 妖 follows the female radical with the phonetic *yāo* (夭); 蠥 follows the insect radical with the phonetic *niè* (嶭); 嶭 is popularly written as 𦵮).