續一切經音義 1.83

1.83

Grasshoppers (蛗螽: the first character has the pronunciation 負 [fù]. The second character has the pronunciation 終 [zhōng]. The Shuowen writes it as 𧑸, with the same pronunciations as above. Xu Shen says: "The 負螽 is a kind of locust; it lives among the grass and does not eat grain seedlings." The Book of Odes says: "Leaping are the grasshoppers (蛗螽)." The Erya writes it as 蛗螽. Both are phono-semantic characters. Leaping (趯) has the fanqie 他曆 [tì]).