一切經音義 99.238

99.238

荇蔆（上音杏郭注爾雅云荇叢生水中葉圓莖端長短隨水深淺江東食之呼為荇或作莕下力蒸反郭注爾雅云蔆今之水中[卄/(敲-高)]也說文從草淩淩亦聲[卄/(敲-高)]音其記反）。

Xingling 荇蔆 (The first character is pronounced xing. Guo [Pu]'s commentary to the Erya says: "荇 grows clustered in water; its leaves are round, on stems whose lengths vary with the depth of the water. People east of the Yangtze River eat it and call it xing." It is also written as 莕. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie li + zeng [líng]. Guo [Pu]'s commentary to the Erya says: "蔆 is the water caltrop (caltrop fruit) of today." The Shuowen says: "It takes 艸 as radical and 淩 as phonetic; 淩 is also phonetic." The caltrop fruit is pronounced qi + ji [qì]).