一切經音義 92.33

92.33

蟋蟀 (The first character has the sound 悉 [xī]; the second character has the fanqie phonetic spelling 衰 [shuāi] + 律 [lǜ], [shuài]. The "Monthly Ordinances" of the Liji says: "Five days later, the crickets dwell in the walls"; this is it. The Mao Commentary to the Shijing says: "The cricket is an insect that chirps in autumn." The Gujin zhengzi says: "The autumn cricket (蛬)." Both characters, 蟋 and 蟀, take 虫 [insect] as radical, with 悉 and 率 as their respective phonetic components. The phonetic reading of 蛬 is 共 [gòng] + 顒 [yóng], [qióng]).