一切經音義 32.404

32.404

兔猫（上土固反考聲狐兔也說文云獸名也象踞後點象其尾形免頭與[奐-大+比]頭同故從[奐-大+比]省下夘包反或作貓顧野王云猫似虎而小人家畜養以捕鼠也文字典說從犬苗聲）。

兔猫 (hares and cats; the first character is 土固反; the Kaosheng states that it means foxes and hares; the Shuowen jiezi states that it is the name of a beast; it depicts sitting upright, and the dot behind depicts the shape of its tail; the head of 免 is the same as the head of [奐-大+比], hence it is derived from the abbreviated form of [奐-大+比]; the second character is 夘包反; also written as 貓; Gu Yewang states that a cat resembles a tiger but is smaller, reared by households to catch mice; the Wenzidian shuo states that it takes the 'dog' (犬) radical with 苗 as phonetic).