一切經音義 60.116

60.116

Snakes, leeches, and swamp eels (the first character is shé in fanqie from shè and zhē; the next has the sound of zhì; the last has the sound of shàn; the Cangjie pian states that the leech is an aquatic worm; Guo's Commentary on the Shanhai jing says the cicada-fish resembles a snake, sometimes written with the worm radical as 蟺; the Cangjie pian says the wānshàn is the earthworm; all these are legless creatures that crawl on their bellies, also called creeping bugs; they are what snake charmers raise to poison people, or store up to serve as food for snakes; all are phono-semantic characters).