一切經音義 54.317

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鴟鵂（上叱之反下朽流反鄭玄箋毛詩云鴟惡鳴鳥也案鴟鵂者𪫦鳥也晝潛夜出而飛同荒鷄鴟梟之屬也大如鳶目赤色蒼黑也古今正字亦鳩鴟也即鵂[(前-刖+缶)*馬]鳥也鴟字或從隹作鴟鵂字從鳥休聲經作鵄俗字也）。

Horned owl [鴟鵂] (the upper is *chi* + *zhi* fan; the lower is *xiu* + *liu* fan. Zheng Xuan's commentary on the *Mao Shi* says: "The *chi* is an ill-omened bird." Examining the *chixiu*: it is an owl, hiding by day and flying out at night, of the same kind as the night heron and screech owl; it is as large as a kite, with red eyes and a dark grey colour. The *Gujin zhengzi* also calls it the turtledove owl [鳩鴟], which is the *xiuliu* bird. The character *chi* sometimes takes the 'short-tailed bird' radical, written 鴟; *xiu* takes the 'bird' radical with *xiu* 休 as phonetic. The sūtra writes 鵄, which is a vulgar character).