一切經音義 38.143

38.143

狖貍（上攸幼反。或作蜼爾。雅云蜼卭鼻而長尾。郭注云似獼猴而大蒼黑色尾長數尺。未有雨峻鼻露向上。天雨則倒懸於[仁-二+尌]以尾掩鼻。古今正字作蜼音余秀反。從虫隹聲。案狖亦古文蜼字也。從犬從宀音綿從古人作狖會意字也。下貍音里知反。案貍即人間野狸獸也形似釐猫口銳尾端有白。說文云伏獸也。似貙從豸里聲貙音勅俱反印即昂釐音离。經文從虫作蝣從鼠作𪖂譯經者妄書。並非本字。率尒而作者也）。

狖貍 (The upper character is pronounced with the fanqie 攸幼 [yòu]; it is sometimes written as 蜼. The Erya says: "The 蜼 has an upturned nose and a long tail." Guo [Pu]'s commentary says: "It resembles a macaque but is larger and dark grey-black, with a tail several feet long. Before rain, its upturned nose is exposed upward; when it rains, it hangs upside down from a tree, covering its nose with its tail." The Gujin zhengzi writes it as 蜼, pronounced with the fanqie 余秀 [yòu], analyzed as semantic 虫 and phonetic 隹. Note that 狖 is also the ancient character for 蜼, analyzed as semantic 犬 and semantic 宀 [mián], formed with the ancient character for 人 as an associative compound. The lower character, 貍, is pronounced with the fanqie 里知 [lí]. Note that the 貍 is the wild leopard cat (狸) of the human world, resembling a civet cat with a pointed mouth and white at the tip of its tail. The Shuowen says: "A lurking beast, resembling a small leopard. Analyzed as semantic 豸 and phonetic 里." 貙 is pronounced with the fanqie 勅俱 [chū]; 昂釐 is pronounced 离 [lí]. The sūtra text writes it with 虫 as 蝣 and with 鼠 as 𪖂, which was mistakenly written by the translator of the sūtra; neither is the original character, but mere hasty fabrications.)