一切經音義 24.70

24.70

貓貍（傳音也正音苗顧野王云似虎而小人家養畜令捕鼠或從犬作猫俗字也下里知反顧野王云亦似虎而小野獸亦猫之類俗謂之野猫好偷人家雞食之說文妖獸也似貙從豸里聲豸音雉貙音丑于反）。

Māolí 貓貍 (Māo 貓 is the transmitted pronunciation; the correct pronunciation is miáo 苗. Gu Yewang says: 'Resembling a tiger but small, kept in households to catch mice; sometimes written with radical quǎn 犬 as 猫, which is a vulgar character'. The lower character is fanqie 里知 [lí]. Gu Yewang says: 'Also resembling a tiger but small, a wild beast belonging to the cat family, popularly called a wildcat; fond of stealing and eating household chickens'. The Shuowen jiezi says: 'an ominous beast resembling a chū 貙; with radical zhì 豸 and lǐ 里 phonetic; zhì 豸 is pronounced zhì 雉, and chū 貙 is fanqie 丑于 [chū]').