一切經音義 41.202

41.202

蟊螣 "Root-eating and leaf-eating locusts" (The first character is pronounced mo-hou [mao]; the second is pronounced teng-de [te]. Both are of the locust kind. The Mao commentary on the Classic of Poetry says: "Those that eat roots are called mao; those that eat leaves are called te." Sometimes written 𧈩. The Shuowen jiezi writes 𧎢: "When officials are greedy and corrupt, 𧈩 are generated." Both are phono-semantic compounds).