一切經音義 66.149

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66.149

Snail (蝸牛: the first is pronounced [寡 + 花] *guā*. The Kaosheng says: 'The snail is the crawls-on-its-belly snail.' Gu Yewang says: 'The snail is the slug.' The Shuowen says: 'The guā is a small spiral shell. It takes the radical chóng and the phonetic guā.' 螔 is pronounced [以 + 支] *yí*; 蝓 is pronounced [庾 + 珠] *yú*; 虫 is pronounced [暐 + 鬼] *huǐ*; 咼 is pronounced kuā).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese