續一切經音義 1.36

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蝮蠍（上芳伏反尒雅曰蝮虺博三寸首大如擘郭璞注云如人擘指史記云蝮螫手則斷也下軒謁反四方通語也說文云毒蟲也尾上拳玉篇云蠆也字從虫歇形聲字也經文作蝎音褐蝎蛣崛也乖蝮蠍義也）。

Viper and scorpion (蝮蠍: the upper character has the fanqie 芳伏. The Erya says: "The fù-huǐ is three inches wide, its head as large as a thumb." Guo Pu's commentary says: "Like a person's thumb." The Shiji says: "If a viper bites the hand, sever it." The lower character has the fanqie 軒謁; it is a widespread word throughout the four quarters. The Shuowen says: "A venomous creature, its tail curling upward." The Yupian says: "A scorpion (蠆). Formed with [the semantic element] chóng (虫) and [the phonetic element] xiē (歇); a phono-semantic character." In the sūtra text it is written as 蝎, pronounced hè, meaning a wood-boring grub (蛣崛), which deviates from the meaning of 'viper and scorpion').