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虹蜺（胡同反爾雅螮蝀虹也月令季春虹始見孟冬虹始藏不見漢書作虫又音絳說文似虫故從虫音毀工聲也古文作羾籀文[工*(奄-大+田)]從电电電也下五嵆反郭璞注爾雅云雌蜺也見離騷或作霓爾雅螮蝀謂之雩音于又云蜺為挈貳郭璞云挈貳別名見尸子）。

虹蜺 [Rainbows] (Hu + tong fan. The Erya says: 'The didong is a 虹.' The Yueling says: 'In the last month of spring, the rainbow begins to appear; in the first month of winter, the rainbow begins to hide and is not seen.' The Hanshu writes it as 虫, also pronounced jiang. The Shuowen says: 'It resembles an insect, hence it is written with 虫, pronounced hui, with 工 as phonetic.' In ancient script it was written as 羾; in the seal script as [工*(奄-大+田)], from 电, where 电 means lightning. The second character is wu + ji fan. Guo Pu's commentary on the Erya says: 'The female rainbow.' It appears in the Lisao. It is also written as 霓. The Erya says: 'The didong is called a yu,' pronounced yu; it also says: 'The secondary rainbow is called a qie'er.' Guo Pu says: 'Qie'er is an alternative name, seen in the Shizi').