一切經音義 45.197

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壁蝨（詵櫛反顧野王云蝨齧人蟲也案壁蝨者如草螕隱於壁隙牀縫之間夜唼食人說文從卂音信從䖵音昆）。

壁蝨 [Bedbugs] (fanqie: 詵 + 櫛. Gu Yewang says: “A louse is an insect that bites people.” As for bedbugs, they resemble grass ticks, hiding in wall crevices and bed cracks, biting and sucking blood from people at night. The Shuowen jiezi says: “Classified under the radical 卂 (pronounced xìn) and 䖵 (pronounced kūn)”).