一切經音義 86.63

86.63

蜉蝣（上附無反下酉周反拔聲云蜉蝣者飛蟻子也毛詩傳云蜉蝣朝生而夕死者古今正字形聲字並從虫孚斿皆聲也）。

Mayfly (蜉蝣: the first [character] is *fu-wu* [f- + -ú = fú] in fanqie; the second is *you-zhou* [y- + -óu = yóu] in fanqie; the Basheng says: “The 蜉蝣 is a winged ant larva.” Mao’s Commentary on the Odes says: “The mayfly is born in the morning and dies at dusk.” The Gujin zhengzi states: “They are phono-semantic characters, both categorized under 'insect' (虫), with 孚 and 斿 as their respective phonetics”).