一切經音義 41.60

41.60

虎豹（上呼古反說文獸君也從虍虍音呼虎足似人足故下從人象形字也下包皃反說文似虎團文黑花而小於虎從豸從包省聲豸音雉也）。

Tigers and leopards (虎豹: for the first character, fanqie hū-gǔ. The Shuowen jiezi says: "The king of beasts; composed of the tiger-stripe radical (虍); 虍 is pronounced hū; a tiger's feet resemble human feet, hence below it takes the person radical (人); a pictographic character." For the second character, fanqie bāo-mào. The Shuowen jiezi says: "Resembles a tiger with circular patterns and black rosettes, but smaller than a tiger; composed of the beast radical (豸) with an abbreviated bāo (包) phonetic; zhì (豸) is pronounced zhì").