一切經音義 17.78

17.78

Ants flying (蟻飛; the first character is [pronounced with the] fanqie yí + [y]ǐ. The Erya says: “The large ones are called pífóu; the small ones are called yǐ. Their kinds are not just one, and they have many names.” The Shuowen says: “It takes chóng ‘insect’ as semantic classifier and yì as phonetic.” It is also written as 螘).