一切經音義 14.289

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鸚鵡（上鳥耕反下音武綠色鳥也郭璞注山海經云扶南外有五色鸚鵡亦有純白者大如鷹足有四指前後各二能學人語曲禮曰鸚鵡能言不離飛鳥並形聲字也從嬰武皆聲嬰從二貝也）。

Parrot (鸚鵡: the first character has the fanqie niao + geng; the second character is pronounced wu; a green-coloured bird; Guo Pu's commentary on the Shanhaijing says: 'Beyond Funan there are five-coloured parrots, and also pure white ones, as large as hawks, having four toes on their feet, two in front and two behind, capable of mimicking human speech'; the Quli says: 'Parrots can speak, yet do not cease to be flying birds'; both are phono-semantic characters, composed of 嬰 and 武 as phonetics; 嬰 contains two 貝).