一切經音義 68.257

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蜆蛤（上袄典反文字集略云水殼蟲也似蛤而小也或作顯小蝓也一名縊女也下甘臘反考聲蛤蚌類也說文蛉有三皆生於海蛤蠣者千歲雀所化也秦謂之壯厲海𧊧者百歲鷰所化也魁蛤一名復累者復翼所化也從虫合聲）。

蜆蛤 [Clams] (The first character has the fanqie 袄典 [ǎo + diǎn]. The Wenzi jilüe says: 'A shelled aquatic creature; it resembles a clam but is smaller.' It is also written 顯, meaning a small slug, also named 縊女. The second character has the fanqie 甘臘 [gān + là]. The Kaosheng says: 'Clams and mussels of their kind.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'There are three kinds of bivalves, all born of the sea. The gémǎ [clam] is transformed from a sparrow a thousand years old; in Qin it is called zhuànglì. The hǎipèi [sea clam] is transformed from a swallow a hundred years old. The kuígé [giant clam], also called fùlèi, is transformed from a bat. It is formed with the "insect" semantic component and the phonetic 合.')