一切經音義 98.41

98.41

蠹木（都故反說文木中蟲也從䖵橐省聲橐音他各反譚長或作螙象蟲在木間象形也）。

Wood-boring insect (dùmù: the first is fanqie 都 + 故 [dū + gù]. The Shuowen jiezi states: "An insect inside wood. It takes the radical 䖵 with a reduced form of 橐 as its phonetic component." 橐 is fanqie 他 + 各 [tā + gè]. Tan Chang also wrote it as 螙, an ideographic representation of an insect within wood).