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一切經音義 52.143

一切經音義 52.143

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Classical Chinese

52.143

猩猩(所京反字林能言鳥也知人名也形如豕頭如黃鷄今交阯封溪有言聲如小兒啼字從犬星聲也)。

猩猩 (Fanqie: 所京 [suǒ + jīng]. The Zilin says: 'A bird that can talk and knows human names, shaped like a pig with a head like a yellow chicken. Nowadays in Fengxi, Jiaozhi, there are some that speak, their sound like the crying of an infant.' The character follows 犬 (dog) with 星 as phonetic.)

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