續一切經音義 1.86

English (machine translation) 1.86

Language: English

1.86

Flies and horseflies (蠅虻: the first character has the fanqie 孕蒸 [yíng]. The second character has the fanqie 麥彭 [méng]. Zheng's commentary on the Book of Odes says: "As an insect, the fly stains white into black." The Fangyan says: "Between Qin, Jin, Chen, and Chu it is called 蠅; in Eastern Qi it is called 羊 (sheep), which is a phonetic corruption." Guo Pu says: "In Jiangdong, calling a fly 羊 is because its sound resembles it").

Previous: 1.85
Next: 1.87
Up: 1

Linked texts (1)

續一切經音義 — Classical Chinese