一切經音義 45.197

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壁蝨 [Bedbugs] (fanqie: 詵 + 櫛. Gu Yewang says: “A louse is an insect that bites people.” As for bedbugs, they resemble grass ticks, hiding in wall crevices and bed cracks, biting and sucking blood from people at night. The Shuowen jiezi says: “Classified under the radical 卂 (pronounced xìn) and 䖵 (pronounced kūn)”).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese