一切經音義 97.190

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97.190

Turn into a giant clam 為蜃 (fanqie: 辰忍 [shèn]). Zheng's commentary to the Zhouli says: 'A shen (蜃) is a giant clam.' Da Dai Liji's Xia xiaozheng says: 'Pheasants enter the Huai River and become giant clams.' The Shuowen jiezi says it takes 虫 ('insect/creature') as semantic and 辰 as phonetic. The edition under collation says swallows enter the sea and become giant clams, which is mistaken.

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese