續一切經音義 8.96

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蚊蟻（上亡分反俗又作蚉正作蟁說文云齧人飛蟲也字從昬省以昬時而出也下牛倚反說文作螘蚍𧉈也爾雅云蚍蜉大螘小者螘從虫豈聲也今作蟻俗字）。

Wényǐ (mosquitoes and ants) (the first character has the fanqie wáng + fēn; popularly written as 蚉, properly written as 蟁. The Shuowen jiezi says: "A biting flying insect." The character is formed with an abbreviated hūn [dusk], because it emerges at dusk. The second character has the fanqie niú + yǐ; the Shuowen jiezi writes it as 螘, meaning a píbǐ. The Erya says: "The pífú is a large ant; small ones are yǐ." It is formed with the "insect" radical and the sound qǐ. Writing it as 蟻 today is the popular form).