一切經音義 37.25

37.25

Mole crickets and ants (螻蟻) (The upper character is le + hou fan; the lower character is yi + ji fan. The Erya states: "The large ones are pifou [carpenter ants]; the small ones are ant eggs [or worker ants]." The Shuowen states: "Composed with 豈 as 螘." In the scripture it is written with 義, which is a vulgar character. In colloquial usage they are collectively called lou; another view holds that large ones are called lou and small ones are called yi).