續一切經音義 8.120

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8.120

Xiámá (frog / toad) (the first character has the fanqie hú + jiā; the second has mò + jiā. The Shuowen jiezi says: "An aquatic insect." The Book of Jin says that Emperor Hui heard the sound of frogs in the Hualin Garden and asked his attendants: "Are those croakers doing so for the public or for private?" The Gujin zhengzi says: "A kind of frog; formed with the 'insect' radical and an abbreviated xiá phonetic." The second character is also written as 蟆, formed with the 'insect' radical and mò phonetic).

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