一切經音義 44.313

44.313

呦呦（又作[ㄠ*刀*欠]同音幽毛詩云呦呦鹿鳴傳曰鹿得草呦呦然而鳴相呼食也古今正字云鹿鳴聲也從口幼聲也）。

Bleating (*youyou*) (呦呦: also written [ㄠ*刀*欠], pronounced identically with 幽 [yōu]; the *Mao Shijing* says: "*You-you* cry the deer"; the commentary says: "When deer find grass, they cry out *youyou* to call one another to feed"; the *Gujin zhengzi* says it is the cry of a deer, with the semantic radical 口 [mouth] and phonetic 幼 [yòu]).