一切經音義 68.219

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貓貍（上夘包反顧野王曰貓似虎而小人家所畜養者以捕鼠也字統從豸苗聲論作猫下里知反顧野王云貍亦貓類也好偷人家雞說文伏獸也從豸里聲論從犬作狸俗字豸音雉）。

Cat and civet (貓貍: the first character is pronounced mao-bao [māo]; Gu Yewang says: 'The 貓 resembles a tiger but is smaller; it is kept by households to catch mice.' The Zitong gives it with [the semantic classifier] zhì and miáo as its phonetic component. The treatise writes 猫. The second character is pronounced li-zhi [lí]; Gu Yewang says: 'The 貍 is also of the cat kind; it likes to steal domestic chickens.' The Shuowen jiezi says: 'A crouching beast; formed with [the semantic classifier] zhì and has lǐ as its phonetic component.' The treatise writes it with the dog classifier as 狸, which is a vulgar character. 豸 is pronounced zhì).