一切經音義 62.162

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Clams and bivalves (蚌蛤: the first is pronounced with the fanqie 龐講. Guo Pu's commentary says: "The bang [蚌] is a clam [𧒏]." The Book of Changes says: "Things that have pearls in their bellies." The Lüshi chunqiu says: "When the moon is full, clams and bivalves are filled; when the moon is dark, clams and bivalves are empty." The Shuowen says: "A bang is an oyster [蠣]; it takes insect [虫] as semantic classifier and feng [丰] as phonetic." The second is pronounced with the fanqie 甘答. The Book of Rites says: "In the last month of autumn, sparrows enter the great water—that is, the sea; a sparrow of a thousand years turns into a bivalve [蛤]." The Shuowen says: "There are three kinds of bivalves, all born in the sea: the oyster bivalve [蛤蠣], transformed from a thousand-year-old sparrow, called in Qin the strong oyster [壯蠣]; the sea bivalve [海蛤], transformed from a hundred-year-old swallow; and the giant clam [魁蛤], which is old and also named puluo [蒲螺], transformed from a bat. It takes insect [虫] as semantic classifier and he [合] as phonetic").