一切經音義 31.151

31.151

Spider (蛛蝥: the first character has the sound zh- [駐] + -ū [逾] fanqie; the second has the sound m- [母] + -óu [侯] fanqie. The Erya says: 'The zhīzhū (蜘蛛) is the zhūmáo (蛛蝥).' Guo's commentary says: 'The zhuómáo (拙蝥).' The Fangyan says: 'West of the Pass, between Qin and Jin, spiders are sometimes called máo.' The Yunying says: 'A web-weaving insect.' The Shuowen says: 'The standard form is written 鼄, formed with the frog radical (黽) and zhū (朱) as phonetic.' The sūtra writes 蛛, which is a popular character form. 蝥 is formed from the insect radical (蟲) with mào (敄) abbreviated as phonetic).