一切經音義 38.144

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鼷鼠（上形雞反顧野王云即甘口鼠也食人及食鳥獸雖至盡而不痛亦不知覺春秋傳曰鼷鼠食郊牛角是也說文云小鼠也從鼠奚聲也）。

鼷鼠 (The upper character is pronounced with the fanqie 形雞 [xī]. Gu Yewang says: "This is the 'sweet-mouthed mouse' (鼷鼠). When it feeds on humans, birds, or beasts, even if it eats them away entirely, they feel no pain and remain unaware. The Chunqiu commentary says: 'Mice gnawed the horns of the sacrificial oxen,' which refers to this." The Shuowen says: "A tiny mouse. Analyzed as semantic 鼠 and phonetic 奚.")