一切經音義 88.50

88.50

𧎗蚪 (The upper character is pronounced 苦 + 禾 fanqie; the lower character is pronounced 兜 + 口 fanqie. Character lexicons say: "𧎗蚪 are water creatures, the offspring of frogs [i.e., tadpoles]." In the biography the character is written 蚪, depicting the shape of a tadpole).