一切經音義 31.75

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鸚鵡（上厄耕反下音武山海經曰黃山有鳥其狀如鴞青羽赤喙人舌能言名曰鸚鵡郭注云今鸚鵡舌似小兒舌脚指前後各兩爪扶南外出毛羽五色者亦有純白者白者稍大如鷹禮記曰鸚鵡能言不離飛鳥是也說文二字皆從鳥嬰武亦聲或作䳇也）。

鸚鵡 (The first character has the fanqie 厄耕; the second is pronounced 武. Shanhai jing says: "On Mount Huang there is a bird shaped like an owl, with green feathers and a red beak, and a human tongue that can speak; it is called a parrot." Guo's commentary says: "Nowadays the parrot's tongue resembles an infant's tongue, with two claws facing forward and two backward on its feet. Those brought out of Funan have five-coloured plumage; there are also pure white ones, the white ones being somewhat larger, like hawks." The Liji says: "Although a parrot can speak, it remains a flying bird." This is it. Shuowen jiezi: both characters take semantic 鳥, with 嬰 and 武 also acting as phonetics; sometimes written 䳇).