一切經音義 38.142

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蚰蜒 (The upper character has the sound 由 [yóu]; the lower character has the sound 延 [yán]. The Guiyuan zhucong says: "The house centipede (蚰蜒) is a multi-legged venomous creature." The Fangyan says: "From the Hangu Pass eastward, between Song and Wei, it is called 螾𧎘; east of Liang and Song, it is called 入耳 ('ear-enterer'); in Northern Yan it is called 𧈳蚭." In the collected commentaries on the Erya, Li Xun says: "The large blue-green ones are called 螾𧎘; the small yellow ones are called 入耳. The people of Qi call it 距窮; the people of Zhao call it 蛈虶; it is also called 長囇. These are all variant names for the house centipede (蚰蜒)." In standard ancient and modern writing, both are phono-semantic graphs.)