一切經音義 74.119

74.119

龜鼈（上鬼追反白虎通曰龜介蟲之長也孔注尚書尺二寸曰大龜出九江水中郭注爾雅吳興郡楊羨縣有池池中出三脚龜亦有六眼龜出地理志說文像形字也下鞭滅反山海經曰從山多三足鼈傳文作鱉俗字也說文從黽從敝黽音猛敝音毗袂反）。

龜鼈 (tortoises and softshell turtles: the first character is pronounced 鬼 + 追 fanqie; the Baihutong says, "The tortoise is the chief of the shelled creatures"; Kong's commentary to the Shangshu says, "A tortoise measuring one foot two inches is called a great tortoise, produced in the waters of Jiujiang"; Guo's commentary to the Erya says, "In Yangxian County of Wuxing Commandery there is a pond, which produces three-legged tortoises; there are also six-eyed tortoises mentioned in the Treatises on Geography"; the Shuowen jiezi says it is a pictographic character; the second character is pronounced 鞭 + 滅 fanqie; the Classic of Mountains and Seas says, "Cong Mountain has many three-legged softshell turtles"; transmitted texts write 鱉, which is a vulgar character; the Shuowen jiezi says it is derived from 黽 and 敝; 黽 is pronounced 猛; 敝 is pronounced 毗 + 袂 fanqie).