一切經音義 14.90

14.90

𧉳蛤 (The upper character is pronounced bang4 [peng-xiang fan]. The lower character is pronounced ge2 [gan-la fan]. The Lüshi chunqiu says: 'Clams and oysters are yin creatures. When the moon is full, clams and oysters are full; when the moon is dark, clams and oysters are empty: they resonate with each other.' The Shuowen jiezi writes 𧊧, and there are three types, all born in the sea: the oyster of a thousand years transformed from a sparrow, which Qin calls the male oyster; the sea-clam transformed from a hundred-year-old swallow; and the kui clam, another name for the conch, transformed from an old bat. Formed from 'insect' (虫) with 合 as phonetic. The sūtra text writes 蛤, which is the same).