一切經音義 63.219

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蠅𠯗（上翼繒反考聲云蠅蟲名也鄭箋詩云蠅之為蟲汙白為黑也說文云蟲之大腹者也從黽從虫下音迊考聲云唼淺入口而味之也𠯗亦嗍也古今正字從卩從帀聲也亦作𠾱經從妾作唼俗字也）。

Flies sipping (蠅𠯗): the first character is pronounced with the fanqie yi-zeng (ying). The Kaosheng states: "A ying is the name of an insect." Zheng [Xuan]'s commentary on the Shijing states: "As an insect, the fly defiles white and makes it black." The Shuowen states: "An insect with a large abdomen; it takes min (黽) and chong (虫) as components." The second character is pronounced with the fanqie zhe-a (zha). The Kaosheng states: "Zha means taking shallowly into the mouth to taste it; 𠯗 also means to suck." The Gujin zhengzi states: "It takes 'mouth' (卩) as semantic classifier and has za (帀) as phonetic component; also written as 𠾱." In the sūtra text it is written with qie (妾) as 唼, which is the vulgar form.