一切經音義 16.78

16.78

Crawling and flying (蠉飛: the first character has the fanqie x- + [y]uan [=xuān]; it is also written 蝝, both being standard characters; the Gongyang zhuan says: 'Yuán (蝝) is precisely xuān (蠉); newly hatched it is called yuán, and grown large it is called xuān'; Liu Xin's explanation says: 'The larva of an ant'; Dong Zhongshu says: 'The larva of a locust'; the Shenglei says: 'The appearance of insects flying'; the Shuowen says: 'Insects crawling'; it is formed with 'insect' [虫] and huán [睘] as phonetic).